Norm Saunders wrote: > > Phil Davis writes: > > > The Brits have split the Mew Gull into Mew and Common Gull. It is > > expected that the AOU will soon follow suit. > > > > Technically, as of today, you would tick it off as a Mew Gull ... > > but note the difference so when the AOU splits it, you can "claim" > > it. > > Phil, > > What is the status of Common/Mew Gull in the U.S.? Are current U.S. > records all of one species or the other, or a mixed bag? Or do we > know? > > And in the Yellow Book I see only two records of this gull, one in > January and one in February, in the Harford/Cecil County area. > Again, do we know which of the two species were involved? > > I was reading about Common Gull last evening in Grant. Do you know > offhand which of the races mentioned in that book will make up the > Mew Gull split? > > Thanks in advance. > Norm > > =============== > Norm Saunders > Colesville, MD > osprey@ari.net___________________ Norm, The Yellow Book report of February 6, 1994 was a first-winter Common Gull, Larus canus canus, that I identified at Conowingo Dam. This report is not accepted by the Records Committee. Gene