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Amar Ayyash
Mars Muusse
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Ring-billed Gull delawarensis 182 adult, October 23 2009, Saint John, New Brunswick. Picture: quack of dawn.
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Banded on both legs and wingtag 182. Wingtag programme: www.mass.gov/dcr/watersupply/watershed/study/index.htm
It is part of the gull control program, run by Department of Conservation and Recreation, conducting research related to the movements and behaviors of Ring-billed, Herring, and Great Black-backed Gulls. This research program is designed to address the following questions:
1. What and where are the seasonal food resources for each gull
species?
2. What are the movement patterns between feeding, loafing and
roosting sites?
Do they move between the DCR water supply reservoirs and “alternate roosts”?
3. What are the population dynamics of gulls in Massachusetts?
a. Where do they nest?
b. What are the sources of mortality?
c. What is their lifespan?
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delawarensis Ring-billed Gull