Conowingo "Common" Gull
Rick Blom (rblom@blazie.com)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 07:05:09 -0500
Fran asked if Jim had seen Bob Ringler's video of the Common Gull.
Jim, and quite a few others of us, have seen it. It is not as useful for ID
purposes as the still photos, but it does confirm my impression at the time
I first saw the bird - most of the characters are more suggestive of
Ring-billed than Common. The still photos confirm the initial suspicions.
It is almost certainly not a Common Gull. It is a Ring-bill.
Rick
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if the university stifles writers. My opinion is
that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could
have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor
Rick Blom
rblom@blazie.com
Bel Air, Maryland