Vagrant Gull

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:59:26AM +1030, Tony Russell wrote:
> Anyone thought about whether this gull was ship assisted and how that
> might affect the legitimacy of it being a tick?

>From memory, the gull was reported to have some photo-degradation
of its feathers.  I assume that this isn't a quick process,
implying that the gull has been in the tropics for some time;
this may or may not rule out a ship-assisted arrival.

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