Changing the subject to something more in line with the post. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Cacace <bcac...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Brooklyn LBBG and thoughts on the Common Gull To: NYSBIRDS-L <NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu>
Here's a note sent to the people monitoring gulls tagged at the Massachusetts reservoirs along with their response. This is a Ring-billed Gull with *A345* on an orange tag: /----- details to state.ma.us -----\ *from:* Ben Cacace *to:* ken.macken...@state.ma.us, dan.cl...@state.ma.us *date:* Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:11 PM *subject:* Brooklyn, NY: Wing Tagged Gull in Prospect Park I found your addresses on the web concerning the colored wing tagging of the locally common gulls in your area. We recently spotted a tagged sub-adult Ring-billed Gull with an orange wing tag with an "A" over the # "345". The bird was on the Prospect Park lake and the date of the observation was Sunday, 10-Jan-2010. If you could send back any details you have on this gull i.e. when it was tagged with "A345" at Wachusetts Reservoir and if there are any other tags from the USFWS that say where the gull was born this would be most appreciated. All the best. /----- response -----\ Ben, Thanks for reporting the sighting. We caught this gull for the first time (no previous band) so we don’t know where it was born, but based on data we have received so far in this study; it may have been hatching in Newfoundland. Here is some specific information on A345: Captured 11/18/09 at the Upper Blackstone Water Treatment Facility, Millbury, MA Capture location (GPS): 42.21231, -71.78614 Captured using a rocket net baited with crackers Juvenile ring-billed gull Florescent orange wing-tags: A345 Federal leg band: 0994-03449 Released on site Sightings: This is the first sighting of this gull- Thank you! Thanks again for the sighting, and please let me know if you see it (or others) again. Ken MacKenzie Senior Wildlife Biologist DCR- Division of Water Supply Protection 180 Beaman Street West Boylston, MA 01583 508-792-7423 x313 \----- end response -----/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
