Re: Ship assisted gulls.

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     The Bird Banding Laboratory gets band reports for birds such as 
     albatross, terns, gulls from shipping vessels. We usually receive 
     several each year. Most of these are not from US vessels and sometimes 
     a banded bird will stay with a ship into port and create a very 
     strange out-of-area encounter. Just thought this would be of interest 
     in reference to the discussion on ship-assisted birds.
     
     Cheers,
     Kathy


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Subject: Ship assisted gulls.
Author:  mdosprey@ARI.Net at NBS-Internet-Gateway
Date:    2/24/99 12:21 AM


Hello all,
     
I thought that Bob Mumfords post regarding ship assisted gulls was rather 
informative.  Certainly any birder that has spent that much time at sea has a 
level of authority that should not be discounted.
     
My question is what evidece is there that birds such as gulls are being ship 
assisted?  Certainly since it is mentioned so often (although not here), there 
must be some reason to think it happens.  
     
Curious,
     
Todd Day
Jeffersonton, VA
BlkVulture@aol.com

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