Fwd: Banded gulls

[Bill Blauvelt]

I took some pictures of a couple of banded Ring-billed Gulls in a large flock at Back Cove in Portland on August 17. It turns out they were banded just east of Montreal, Quebec.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/13686093@N06/albums/72157672554887416

Bill Blauvelt

Portland, ME

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From: Giroux, Jean-François
Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:49 PM
Subject: Banded gulls
To: "bil.bl...@gmail.com" <bil.bl...@gmail.com>

Your sightings reported to Noah Perlut made it through the gull biologist community. Here are some details about the marked ring-billed gulls spotted in Portland. I was able to determine the codes from the numbers seen on the steel bands. One has a broken band, which is sometimes occurs after few years. These were banded in a 45,000 pairs colony just east of Montreal, Quebec.

 

Thanks for reporting these sightings and do not hesitate to submit other directly to me or through our web site http://gull.uqam.ca

 

 

Jean-François Giroux

Directeur, Département des sciences biologiques,

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM),

141 Président-Kennedy, SB-R880

CP 8888, Succursale Centre-ville,

Montréal, Québec, Canada  H3C 3P8

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