I am grateful to my colleague Dick Newell for the following record of a Lesser Black-backed Gull, a well-travelled and well-recorded bird if ever there was one:
red SDJ (metal ring GA37303)
14/07/2002 Orford Beach, Orfordness, Suffolk - RINGED AS PULLUS
01/10/2002 Tostock, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
10/01/2003 Agadir MOROCCO 30.26N 09.36W
01/07/2004 Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk,
22/10/2004 Westkapelle, Walcheren, Zeeland, NETHERLANDS 51.32N 03.26E
31/03/2005 Gijon, Asturias, SPAIN 43.32N 05.38W
03/02/2006 Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire
18/09/2007 Earsham, Norfolk
17/01/2010 Drinkstone, Suffolk
06/02/2012 Milton tip, near Cambridge
Whenever I see small flocks of this species of gull in the field below mine, I wonder how many have a similar story to tell?
Whenever I see small flocks of this species of gull in the field below mine, I wonder how many have a similar story to tell?
2 comments:
Over ten years that's a very impressive record. Birds do seem to be reasonably long lived, don't they?
Yes, indeed, but I think you will find even bigger surprises on the BTO website where they give longevity records for every species:
http://blx1.bto.org/ring/countyrec/results2010/longevity.htm
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