Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:54:57 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Katrina Knight Subject: Re: Jug Bay Gulls & questions In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000120183249.03e283d0@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed On 06:42 PM 1/20/00 Phil Davis wrote: > Zoological parks also keep species in captivity. For example, a > Silver Gull is registered at the >National Zoological Park in DC ... (a Silver Gull was found in DE/NJ a >few years ago). > >Several years ago a big winter storm destroyed buildings at a large >zoo in >NY and some captive gulls escaped (not "our" species, however). IIRC, the zoo in question denied having had any Silver/Red-billed Gulls when queried about the one in DE/NJ. Someone ended up producing a picture of one in the aviary that collapsed. I think that kind of ended the debate over where the bird came from. -- Katrina Knight kknight@epix.net Reading, PA ================================================================= To unsubscribe send a message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ==========================================================================================================================================