I'm sure there will be an online translator that could do the job.
LK
On 18/01/2011, at 9:10 PM, Chris Gregory wrote:
Wim, Alan and all Birding-Ozers
I'm not sure I speak on behalf of all B-A's but you have to love
this. Could
this have happened 10 years ago? Some bloke in the US emails Alan in
his
leafy bower in tropical FNQ with some obscure request about Gull
behaviour.
Alan posts on B-A and within hours Wim replies from frozen Tromso
(70 deg
N), except he's on holiday in Germany, with an accurate description
of the
Gulls behaviour and an offer to send the US guy a copy of his paper
on the
subject.
Made my day. In a couple of weeks when Wim gets back from his
holiday, I
have visions of a somewhat startled guy from Little Rock, Idaho
trying to
read Wim's paper in Norwegian on the subject.
Cheers
Chris Gregory
On 18 January 2011 20:33, Vader Willem Jan Marinus
<> wrote:
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: im Auftrag von Alan Gillanders
Gesendet: Di 1/18/2011 5:36
Dear Alan and others,
The description is a little atypical, but I
suppose what your correspondent has seen, is gulls foot-trampling;
here in
N. Norway (well, I write this from Germany, in fact) this is
especially
common with Common Gulls, Larus canus, but I've seen Ring-billed
gulls
doing this before, when on a vhiesit to the US. What the gulls
achieve
with their trampling, is a liquefaction of the sediment, which causes
animals of the infauna--worms, mollusks, small crustaceans-- to
come to
the surface where the gulls can easily pick them up. One can nicely
demonstrate this by foot-trampling lightly oneself. I have earlier
written
more extensively in Birding-aus on the subject several years ago---
have
also published, but in Norwegian--, and this may still be
accessible in
the archives. If not, and there is interest, I can dig it up, and
resend
the piece when I get homne two weeks from now.
Wim Vader, Tromsö Museum
9037Tromsö, Norway
Betreff: [Birding-Aus] Gull behaviour in eastern Florida
Greetings,
A friend in the states asked me about this behaviour, "Saw some
interesting behavior I've never seen before. There were several
ring-billed gulls, not our largest but fairly large birds, out in
one of
the shallow lagoons. They were standing in less than an inch of
water.
Several of them put their heads down, bills out in front in the
water, and
walked back and forth plowing through the mud. They'd walk 6-8
feet (2
meters) stop, stand up, shake their heads, turn around, and walk back
again the same way. I've never seen gulls do that before. I
suppose they
were trying to feed, but on what? Usually they eat larger stuff than
little mud bugs. Oh well, chalk another new thing up to birds that
don't
read the books about them!." What would I know, I'm an upland
rainforest
birder. If you have any ideas that would be good.
Thanks,
Alan
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