More LBBG Sightings – With Pictures!
GoShoals | 9:48 pm | February 24, 2009 | Photos
From Chuck Tague, Holly Hill, Volusia County, FL:
This morning (February 23, 2009, 8:15 a.m.), I photographed a leg-banded Lesser Black-backed Gull (White on green FO5). The bird was loafing on the beach at high tide with a small group of other larids, mostly Herring and Ring-billed Gulls. There was an unbanded LBBG in the group, although I noted no interaction between the two.
The bird was about a quarter mile north of the north jetty at Ponce Inlet, Volusia County Fl. From Google Earth, 29°4’57.78″N, 80°55’26.97″W. This is six miles south of the sighting reported by Michael Brothers at Daytona Beach Shores on January 21, 2009.
Gulls in the News
GoShoals | 9:41 pm | | Uncategorized
Julie Ellis’ gulls made it into the Cornell news!
Rare gull banded at Shoals Marine Lab lands in Florida
A rare lesser black-backed gull banded in May 2007 at Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island off the coast of New Hampshire was spotted on Jan. 21 in Florida. While at Appledore Island, the bird had also nested and paired with a native herring gull… read the full story.
Learn even more at appledorellbg.
Shoals in the Winter
GoShoals | 12:15 pm | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
A beautiful set of island winter photos from Hal Weeks (if you want to see the island in the summer, check out the tour):
Shoals Alums
GoShoals | 12:22 pm | February 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
From left to right: Christine, Marie, Adam, Rohini, Sherry in Stimson Hall at the Office of Undergraduate Biology BIo Fair on Jan. 30:
