[Maine-birds] Fwd: [cayugabirds-l] Herring Gull banded in Portland 6/28/16

Ever wonder where Portland sea gulls winter?  Kevin McGowan is an expert on crows and crow behavior who works at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology .  He monitors the compost facility at Cornell (in Ithaca, NY) regularly.  In the following post, he reports on a banded Herring Gull found there two weeks ago.

Alicia

P.S.  If you click on the link and notice the crow with a '75' on its wing, it was tagged as part of the ongoing crow research project.

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Subject:	banded Herring Gull
Date:	Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:39:46 +0000
From:	Kevin J. McGowan <kjm2@cornell.edu>
Reply-To:	Kevin J. McGowan <kjm2@cornell.edu>
To:	CAYUGABIRDS-L <CAYUGABIRDS-L@list.cornell.edu>

I took some photos of a first cycle Herring Gull at the Cornell compost facility on 10 December, 2016, and I just found out it was banded as a chick 28 June 2016 on the roof of the Portland Art Museum in downtown, Portland, Maine, by Dr. Noah Perlut of the University of New England. It's always interesting to know where our winter visitors come from.

Photos of the bird are in my eBird list at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S32947117. Six gull species there that day.

HH

Kevin