Well, the value of banding.....we now know about more about gull longevity.....
> On January 15, 2020 at 12:22 AM leorm...@gmail.com mailto:leorm...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > A photo of a banded ring-billed gull taken atop someone’s car at the > Town’s dock in Blue Point (just west of Corey Beach) was recently posted on a > Facebook group. > > After entering the data on the USGS site, i received notification > (remarkably in just 12 hours) that the bird was banded in Varennes Quebec > (just outside Montreal) in 2014 and that the bird was hatched in 2011 or > earlier. > * Luke > > > > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
