Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:31:53 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Betty Conley Subject: Killer Gulls and other winter wonders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello List, This is my first post to this list..... and I'm forwarding information that was in The Beakly News (AOL's bird watching newsletter) today... it's okay since I wrote this :-) >>Gulls on the Dark Side: According to a post on a New York birding listserv, a Long Island birder watched in disbelief as a great black-backed gull pounced on an American coot and slowly killed it. The poster, who was not witness to this particular attack, noted that he has seen this species kill many other birds, most recently immature laughing and ring-billed gulls. The poster, hmcguinness@ross.org, is putting together a list of species that have been killed and eaten by great black-backed gulls and he would appreciate hearing from readers who might add their observations to the list.>> Feel free to cross-post -- contact hmcguinness@ross.org Betty Conley - MamaDuck1@aol.com Long Island NY and Colesville MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ================================================================================================================================================