[Bristol-Birds] banded gull recovered at Erwin Fish Hatchery in 1939
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 20:50:38 -0400
May 25, 1939, two gulls were shot at the Erwin Fish Hatchery in Unicoi
County, TN. Both appeared to be of the same kind and one had been
banded. The hatchery superintendent received a letter from the
U.S. Biological Survey, giving the following information: the bird was
banded June 27, 1938, on Scarecrow Island, Lake Huron, at what is
today Sanborn Township, MI, by C. C. Luawig, and was a Ring-billed
Gull. The banding site is approximately 600 miles due north of Erwin.
In 1943, a paper published in The Wilson Bulletin reported the Scarecrow
Island breeding colony to be the largest single colony of Ring-bills in
the Middle West. This report restricted from an article in THE MIGRANT.
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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