Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:21:00 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kathy Klimkiewicz Subject: Re: 50-year-old Manx shearwater MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Chan Robbins caught a Laysan Albatross this year that was previously banded and is at least 51 years old! Cheers, Kathy Laurel MD "Wilkerson, Jordan T." To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: [MDOSPREY] 50-year-old Manx Sent by: Maryland shearwater Birds & Birding 04/18/02 11:15 AM Please respond to Maryland Birds & Birding MDOsprey, http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/04/18/britain.bird/index.html "LONDON, England -- One of the world's oldest living wild birds is marking its golden jubilee by preparing to breed again". "First ringed by ornithologists in 1957, the bird's journeys were made while migrating between Britain and South America". "It was re-discovered on April 4 this year in a colony of several thousand others on Bardsey, an island off the Lleyn peninsula in north Wales". Jordan Wilkerson Cloverly, MD Montgomery County jordan.wilkerson@jhuapl.edu jandk@jordanandkaren.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================