[texbirds] Re: Mysterious Gull in Austin
- From: MBB22222@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:14:40 -0400 (EDT)
Very interesting hypotheses; seems like conspiracy theory can be found
everywhere now, including the bird world. What a time we all are living in.
But, perhaps not too many people go out now and look for birds in this nice
heat. Reports during Texas summer are quite smaller in numbers compare to
other parts of the year. For example Lesser Black-backed Gulls are not
showing on eBird (UTC) during last two months. I did not have time to look for
them but one time in June I saw maximum of 4 in one group together. This
month max 2 together but again all this sighting were incidental. All were
subadults - I think I heard of adult being seen also - so probably there
are several of them out there on the coast. Perhaps some might treat them as
'exotics'? BTW - From personal experience I learnt that to verify sighting
on eBird can take few months or foreverâ¦
Also this was a time when many birds bred and had nests so some people
might hold on and did not want to point to some spots. Anyway, 4th of July is
always a critical day to me as beaches after that day look like the
hurricane hit them, living only trash and 'donut' tire tracks behind with many
nests completely destroyed. This year was no better than others.
Mark B Bartosik
Houston, Texas
http://www.pbase.com/mbb/from_the_field
In a message dated 7/16/2013 8:46:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
johnribble@xxxxxxx writes:
Dear Graham,
I don't know what happened to the gull but I can think of several
scenarios.
1. Someone of ornithological bent, who doesn't care whether birders see
birds, saw and identified(maybe) the bird and photographed it. The picture
and possibly the specimen will be part of a paper to be published later. Be
on the lookout for it in print and collections.
2. Come to think of it the others are too preposterous to even mention.
I do know that a number of people have looked for the bird and not found
it. I do not understand why people would want to keep others from seeing the
bird. Maybe it's caged.
John Ribble
Austin, TX
On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Graham Floyd <spcgraham.floyd@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Texbirders,
> I know a few of us are interested in this report of a Western Gull in the
> Austin area. Does anyone have any specifics?
>
> Graham Floyd,
> San Antonio, TX
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