American Herring Gull (smithsonianus)

(last update: October 30, 2015)

American Herring Gull (smithsonianus) 2nd cycle (3CY) 1206-17561 February 17-18 2014, Windsor landfill, CT. Picture: Keith Mueller.

This type of band is used by Ken MacKenzie in the Water Supply Protection Gull Study of the Massachusetts government.
Band number 1206-17561, species: "Herring Gull", banded on January 10 2014 at a landfill in Rhode Island. It weighed 1240 g., wing chord 455 mm, bill/head length 130.31 mm, tarsii length 84.32 mm, culmen 54.13 mm, and gonys depth 19.74.

Bi-coloured bill. Some scapulars grey but intermixed with brown feathers. Coverts and tertials marbled brown as well. Second gen primaries with rounded tips.

below: American Herring Gull (smithsonianus) 0Z 2nd cycle (3CY), February 17 2014, Windsor Landfill, Hartford Co., CT. Picture: Keith Mueller.

Banded 2nd cycle (3CY) Herring Gull, banded orange 0Z and metal 1206-17561 on January 10 2014 at Bristol Co., MA.

Most scapulars grey, but still intermixed with brown feathers. When in flight note the brown inner primaries and ill-defined pattern on central primaries (P4-P6), lacking an obvious clearcut sub-terminal band, indicating 2nd gen flight feathers.