[Maine-birds] gull wing tag sighting In Princeton, ME

Hi Folks,

 

My daughter and her fiancé saw a wing-tagged ring-billed gull on June 21 at the Princeton Town Landing.  They were able to get the wing tag number without binoculars.  There is an attachment with the history of sightings for this bird.  Banded as a juvenile on 11-15-12 in Worcester, MA, it gets around and appears to be adept at begging based on some of the sighting locations (e.g., Little Ceasar's).  It also likes boat launches.

 

Color tagged gulls are cool!

 

Norm Famous

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From: Joe Musante <joemusante@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Subject: Fw: gull wing tag sighting
To: Erica Famous <erica.famous@gmail.com>, Norman Famous <nfamous@maine.edu>, "randall.kat@gmail.com" <randall.kat@gmail.com>

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From: "MacKenzie, Ken (DCR)" <ken.mackenzie@state.ma.us>
To: 'Joe Musante' <joemusante@yahoo.com>; "Clark, Dan (DCR)" <dan.clark@state.ma.us>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 9:05 AM
Subject: RE: gull wing tag sighting

Great!  Thanks.  You saw a juvenile Ringed-bill gull.  See attached for info on the gull you saw.

Ken

 

Ken MacKenzie

Senior Wildlife Biologist

DCR- Division of Water Supply Protection

180 Beaman Street

West Boylston, MA 01583

508-792-7423   x313

 

From: Joe Musante [mailto:joemusante@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 7:52 AM
To: MacKenzie, Ken (DCR); Clark, Dan (DCR)
Subject: Re: gull wing tag sighting

 

Ahh the formatting must have messed it up... it was A with 705 beneath the A.

 

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From: "MacKenzie, Ken (DCR)" <ken.mackenzie@state.ma.us>
To: 'Joe Musante' <joemusante@yahoo.com>; "Clark, Dan (DCR)" <dan.clark@state.ma.us>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 3:25 PM
Subject: RE: gull wing tag sighting

 

Joe,

Thanks for the report of the tagged gull.  Did the tag have anything else besides an "A" on it?

 

Ken MacKenzie

Senior Wildlife Biologist

DCR- Division of Water Supply Protection

180 Beaman Street

West Boylston, MA 01583

508-792-7423   x313

 

From: Joe Musante [mailto:joemusante@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 2:29 PM
To: MacKenzie, Ken (DCR); Clark, Dan (DCR)
Subject: gull wing tag sighting

 

Hi Ken and Dan

Just saw a wing tagged and leg banded gull up here in Princeton, Maine and a google search yielded your contact info. I'm not gull expert but I think it was a herring gull with adult plumage.  Was hanging out at our town boat landing looking for handouts this afternoon, June 21st, 2013, around 1:30pm.  Had 3 other similar gulls with it with no tags.  Tag and leg band were both bright orange and label was:      A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            705

 

Any return info you can send me would be an interesting read.

 

Joe Musante

Water Quality Biologist

Passamaquoddy Tribe

Indian Township, Maine

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Norman Famous, Wetlands and Wildlife Ecologist

513 Eight Rod Road

Augusta, ME 04330

(207) 623 6072

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