[mou] FW: BLACK-TAILED GULL Racine, Wisconsin

[Jim Williams]

Good bird in Wisconsin.
Jim Williams

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> From: Thomas Schultz <trschultz@vbe.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:01:55 -0500
> To: John Idzikowski <idzikoj@uwm.edu>, wisbirdn@lawrence.edu
> Subject: Re: BLACK-TAILED GULL Racine
> 
> I would concur completely -- with long, slightly drooping black-and-red-tipped
> bill, dark gray
> mantle, yellow legs, red orbital ring, and especially the black tail on an
> adult bird.  Stunning
> bird!
> 
> I'm not positive, but this might be the first Great Lakes record.
> 
> Great find, Eric.
> 
> Tom Schultz
> Green Lake
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Idzikowski" <idzikoj@uwm.edu>
> To: <wisbirdn@lawrence.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:43 AM
> Subject: BLACK-TAILED GULL Racine
> 
> 
>> Eric Howe sent me shots this morning of a gull he could not identify from
>> Shoop Park in northern Racine; see them here-
>> http://hoyaudubon.org/birds/
>> 
>> This is most certainly an adult Black-tailed or Japanese Gull; we have been
>> expecting this bird on Lake Michigan for the last 5 years.
>> 
>> John Idzikowski,
>> Milwaukee
>> 
>> 
>> 
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