[va-bird] Banded Gull

Gulls are one of many species which are banded.  Last spring while on an 
outing to Prince William County landfill with Steve Rottenborn, I found a 
banded Herring Gull.  With aid of scope we were able to get the numbers 
which were then submitted electronically on Patuxent  Wildlife Research 
Center's web site http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/homepage/mailrecv.htm.

Several months later after submitting the band identification I received a 
certificate that identified the species, date, location where it had been 
banded and name of bander.  It had been banded up in New Brunswick several 
years earlier.

If you were able to get the numbers then the process in submitting is easy 
using the web site

Best wishes,

Brenda Tekin
Charlottesville, VA


At 09:57 AM 1/31/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi All
>While checking one of my birding haunts  close to the home. I found  A 
>ring bill with two  bands, a silver one on right leg and a red one on 
>left. It was a 3rd year  bird  walking in grass by a  pond with about 
>a  hundred  other
>ring-bills. I find it odd for a Ring-billed Gull to be banded. I have 
>never seen and kind of gull with a band before
>And body  out there have and ideas as to where it might have been banded.
>
>Good Birding
>Ben Copeland
>Hampton Va.
>


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