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.
