[TN-Bird] New Respect for Ring-billed Gull
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:44:03 -0500 (EST)
Jan. 11, 2012
If you spend as much time as I do searching through seas of Ring-billed
Gulls, you see so much diversity, but soon the numbers tend to overwhelm and
dull your senses. Watching the hordes on lakes, and rivers, in fields
gleaning farming left overs, plus thousands at landfills grubbing through
human
refuse, you know they are survivors but now I have new respect for that
trait.
I recently was told by a gull researcher about a banded Ring-billed Gull
that was recently collected, that had done just that, survived for 27 years
and 6 months breaking the standing record by 2 years. I will scan these
birds with a new respect and know they must be loved or God would not have
made so many.
Good Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Rd.
Bartlett, TN. 38135_http://WWW.pbase.com/ol_coot/_
(http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/)
What is this feathered thing that lifts my heart to the heavens.
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