Because nobody has reported this species in a while, I thought I'd post this second-hand report: I just received a call from Mike Champagne, a Michigan birder making his third attempt at seeing the Black-tailed Gull. He finally found it from Lakeshore Park in Ashtabula around 2:00 this afternoon. He first located the bird in the water, and then watched it fly to the roof of the blue building, where it settled down between 2 Herring Gulls for an excellent size comparison. The gull was still present when he left around 2:30. Alex Champagne Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology Ohio State University ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]