{"id":1002981,"date":"2010-01-18T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T00:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002981"},"modified":"2010-01-28T07:11:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:11:12","slug":"another-tagged-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2010\/01\/18\/another-tagged-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Tagged Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I walked around Prospect Park for a few hours. Nothing majorly new, except for one Cooper&#8217;s Hawk in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. The feeders were shockingly quiet. Not a bird to be seen. I look for the American Pipit that&#8217;s been reported repeatedly on the Long Meadow over the last couple of weeks, but wiffed again even though another birder found it later. However, I did find another wing tagged Ring-billed Gull on Prospect Lake, this one a first winter bird. As best I can make out its number is A288:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ring-billed-Gull-A288.jpg\" alt=\"1st Winter Ring-billed Gull, Wing tag A288 Black on Red\" title=\"Ring-billed Gull A288\" width=\"673\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1002989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ring-billed-Gull-A288.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ring-billed-Gull-A288-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Likely all the wing tagged gulls that are showing up lately are coming from Massachusetts where Dr. Tom French has been banding gulls. I should know more shortly. Multiple birders have been reporting them around the city. This is possibly the fourth from Prospect Lake alone.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Update: yep, this bird was banded at the Quinsigamond State Park in Worcester County, Massachusetts on October 27, 2009, just a few months before I saw it. Sex unknown and born in 2008 or earlier. (Probably 2008 would be my guess based on the bird&#8217;s plumage when I found it.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/A288-certificate.jpg\" alt=\"A288 certificate\" title=\"A288 certificate\" width=\"900\" height=\"572\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1003037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/A288-certificate.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/A288-certificate-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Total species count for the morning was a respectable 27:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> \tCanada Goose  \t<\/li>\n<li> \tMute Swan \t<\/li>\n<li>\tAmerican Black Duck \t<\/li>\n<li>\tMallard \t<\/li>\n<li>\tNorthern Shoveler \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBufflehead \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRuddy Duck \t<\/li>\n<li>\tAmerican Coot \t<\/li>\n<li>\tRing-billed Gull \t<\/li>\n<li>\tHerring Gull \t<\/li>\n<li>\tGreat Black-backed Gull \t<\/li>\n<li>\tRock Pigeon \t<\/li>\n<li>\tMourning Dove \t<\/li>\n<li>\tCooper&#8217;s Hawk \t<\/li>\n<li>\tRed-bellied Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li>\tDowny Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li>\tBlue Jay \t<\/li>\n<li>\tAmerican Crow \t<\/li>\n<li>\tBlack-capped Chickadee \t<\/li>\n<li> \tTufted Titmouse \t<\/li>\n<li>\tWhite-breasted Nuthatch \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCarolina Wren \t<\/li>\n<li> \tHermit Thrush \t<\/li>\n<li>\tEuropean Starling \t<\/li>\n<li>\tWhite-throated Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tDark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) \t<\/li>\n<li>\tNorthern Cardinal \t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I walked around Prospect Park for a few hours. Nothing majorly new, except for one Cooper&#8217;s Hawk in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. The feeders were shockingly quiet. Not a bird to be seen. I look for the American Pipit that&#8217;s been reported repeatedly on the Long Meadow over the last couple of weeks, [&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":[180,244],"class_list":["post-1002981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-bird-banding","tag-gull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002981","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=1002981"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003040,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002981\/revisions\/1003040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}