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[Citizen Science <citizenscience@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tyler (and RAS members),
Thanks for getting in touch.  I'm cc'ing our regional reviewer for VA, who will 
look into this.  No need for each member to email me, though-- Wendy is a 
terrific resource and will thoughfully handle your request.
All the best,
Melissa Hopkins
Citizen Science

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From: Tyler Turpin [tylerturpin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:23 PM
To: Citizen Science
Cc: richmond listserve
Subject: Hopewell VA on james River GBBC data

One of the compilers for the GBBC  for Hopewell, VA  on the James River  was 
probably  a well meaning novice birder and recorded 50 or so Ring Billed Gulls 
as Laughing Gulls  on the 16th or 17th. Winter Plumage Laughing Gulls have some 
black on the head as do winter plumage immature Ring Billed Gulls. It has been 
been my experience ,as a birder with 28 years of experience , including having 
once worked in Hopewell , VA  for two years and birding there several times a 
month on my way home from work, that Laughing Gulls are not present in small 
numbers 40 miles downriver from Hopewell till mid to late March.Please strike 
the record of Laughing Gulls in Hopewell from the GBBC date . Fellow RAS  
members back me up please by e-mailing citizenscience@xxxxxxxxxxx with the same 
request

I birded the marina , city point shore line and the Benjamin Harrison bridge 
areas of Hopewell this morning. I saw 30 some Ring Billed but no Laughing Gulls



Sincerely,

Tyler Turpin
a Richmond Audubon Society fieldtrips leader
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