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Date: | Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:28:41 -0400 |
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The last couple weekends I have had the opportunity to check out the large
concentration of Bonaparte's gulls at Lakeview Park in Lorain. What I found
interesting was the high percentage of these birds that had active molt
occurring in their flight feathers. I saw quite a few that had areas of
half-grown feathers in the primaries and secondaries. At Conneaut yesterday
I think I saw probably 400+ Bonaparte's gulls and not a single one was
molting flight feathers.
Evidently the birds at Conneaut were a different flock than the flock at
Lorain. Wouldn't you think if you're seeing a high percentage of molting
birds at Lorain, you'd see them at Conneaut also. Did the Conneaut birds
originate from a different breeding area than the Lorain flock? They have a
pretty large breeding range, ranging from Alaska to Quebec. Were they have
different latitudes? It's kind of interesting.
John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
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