{"id":1002964,"date":"2010-01-11T07:44:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T12:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002964"},"modified":"2010-01-28T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:16:16","slug":"tagged-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2010\/01\/11\/tagged-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagged Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found neck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2006\/01\/29\/banded-goose\/\">banded Canada Geese before<\/a>, and occasional leg bands on other species (though I&#8217;ve never been able to fully read those); but yesterday I saw my first wing tag on a Ring-billed Gull along Gravesend Bay:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/5FmiLY1KOYGnEzY3PaM93Q?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_-7AgAO10zJ8\/S0sbv2lFUoI\/AAAAAAAACa0\/n7ErlJ77M-I\/s800\/_.jpg\" alt='wing tag A99 Red on Black on a Ring-billed Gull' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve reported it. I hope I can find out more about this bird.  This was far from the most interesting gull on the bay yesterday though. More about that later.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As expected, this bird  was tagged at the Upper Blackstone Wastewater Treatment Plant in Worcester, Massachusetts on November 5, 2008. Sex unknown and born in 2005 or earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/A99-certificate.jpg\" alt=\"USGS Certificate of Appreciation. Awarded to. Elliotte Harold. BANDING DATA: BAND NUMBER: 0974-05321 A99. SPECIES: RING-BILLED GULL. Banded 11\/05\/2008 Sex Unknown\" title=\"A99 certificate\" width=\"900\" height=\"1130\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1003036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/A99-certificate.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/A99-certificate-119x150.jpg 119w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/A99-certificate-716x900.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/A99-certificate-815x1024.jpg 815w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found neck banded Canada Geese before, and occasional leg bands on other species (though I&#8217;ve never been able to fully read those); but yesterday I saw my first wing tag on a Ring-billed Gull along Gravesend Bay: I&#8217;ve reported it. I hope I can find out more about this bird. This was far from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[180,115],"class_list":["post-1002964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-bird-banding","tag-gulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002964"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003042,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002964\/revisions\/1003042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}