Thought some of you might be interested this piece of news from the American
BirdChat mailing list.
Julian
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>Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 05:51:09 PST
>Reply-To: Ron French <>
>Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line)"
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>From: Ron French <>
>Subject: Silver Gull in New Jersey
>Comments: To:
>To:
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>Chatters:
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> A Silver Gull (Larus Novaehollandiae) is present in a small park on
>the Delaware River in the town of Pennsville, New Jersey. Since this is
>an Australian species, its origin is suspicious but it is still quite a find.
>The bird is not banded and it is hanging out with a small flock of
>Ring-billed Gulls at a pond in the park. The bird was first discovered a
>few weeks ago by a person photographing the birds who noticed that
>this bird was different and not shown in his bird book. The bird was still
>present on Nov. 7th and probably will hang out in the park since
>people come to feed the gulls and geese that are there.
>
> Pennsville is just below the Delaware Memorial Bridge across the
>river from Wilmington, Delaware.
>
>Ron French
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>Chalfont, PA
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>
Julian Bielewicz
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Australia
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