Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Black-headed Gull Resighting

Got a great email from the friendly Nils Helge Lorentzen this evening with the information regarding the ringed Black-headed Gull I found up at Townhill Loch, Fife area on the 15th February whilst dropping in on the Ring-billed Gull (see here).

According to the data the bird was 3cy+ when ringed in June 2012 in Stavanger, Norway. It has been seen several times within Norway over the intervening period, venturing a huge 12 km from its ringing location! However, this year it decided to go a little further and travel 348 km to Townhill Loch - no doubt enticed by the locals bread supply! My sighting was 964 days after the bird was ringed. The details are below:

Date
Place


Days/km/°
26.06 2012
Breiavatnet, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway


-
18.07 2012
Breiavatnet, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

22/0/0
06.03 2013
Breiavatnet, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway


253/0/0
29.03 2013
Mosvatnet, østsiden, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway


276/2/213
20.03 2014
Breiavatnet, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway


632/0/0
27.03 2014
Litla Stokkavatnet, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway

639/2/273
11.06 2014
Domkirkeplassen, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway


715/0/322
30.06 2014
Slettnesvik, Høgsfjorden, Sandnes, Rogaland, Norway 


734/12/97
15.02 2015
Townhill Loch, Fife Region, Great Britain


964/348/204

I got a few record shots of the bird - just trying to get the ring sorted, these are below.

Black-headed Gull Record Shot (Andy Walker 2015)

Black-headed Gull Record Shot (Andy Walker 2015)

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