In Popular Culture
The wildlife refuge was featured in a 2007 episode of the Discovery Channel TV series Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. Due to the large number of birds vomiting and defecating from high in the trees the island is referred to as "Vomit Island" in the program.
In the animated television series Transformers Animated the Dinobots reside in refuge on island called "North Sister Island", located in Lake Erie, a fictional reference to West Sister Island.
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