American Herring Gull (smithsonianus)

(last update: October 30, 2015)

Coordinators:
Amar Ayyash (US)
Bruce Mactavish (Canada)
Dave Brown (Canada)
Mars Muusse (Netherlands)

American Herring Gull (smithsonianus) Q Q Q Fed band Q Q adult, September 05 2009, Presqu'ile, Brighton, ON. Picture: Newfoundlander61.

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Banded female Herring Gull grey-black-green metal-yellow-green. History (Thanks to Michael Butler; Glen Fox, & Chip Weseloh for this help and interest in this banded gull.) of this Female Herring Gull in Presquile Provincial Park:
1996 Trapped on nest. Banded and color banded
1997 Observed on nest with same color banded mate
1998 Observed on nest with same color-banded mate (that was last year that systematic observations were made in the colony)
2002 Sighting reported on June 7
2007 Observed feeding on carcass of Long-tailed Duck 11 Nov
2009 Photographed on Beach 3 at Presquile on Sept 5

Bird in complete (pre basic) moult in summer: P6>P5, and P9-P10 still old.