FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Ring-billed Gulls Banded

[Whoopinwiller@xxxxxxx]

22 FEB 04
.
Lee Highway
Bristol, VA
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Volunteer Parkway
Bristol, TN
This morning, near 10:30, Wallace Coffey banded the first Ring-billed Gull in 
Southwest Virginia to the best of our knowledge. The gull was trapped using 
the Launched Avian Restraint Utility System (L.A.R.U.S.) prototype as 
referenced in the Bristol Herald Courier news paper on Friday 20 FEB 04.  
Bristol, 
Virginia Super Wal-Mart, I-81 exit 7, parking lot is where the banding took 
place 
as 100 or more Ringed-billed Gulls congregated and responded quickly to our 
bait. This success was followed by a second gull banded in Bristol, Tennessee 
on 
the Volunteer Parkway Food Lion parking lot. This was also a first for the 
region as far as we know.
Project: L.A.R.U.S. was initiated in hopes to have a banded bird recovered 
after spring migration in order to establish a migratory path for our regional 
overwintering gulls. 


'Til we bird again

Rack Cross
Blountville, TN


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