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On 18 January 2011 22:45, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
> Having had experience with the Babelfish site in the past, the translation
> should make interesting reading after the translation.
>
> Carl Clifford
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> On 18/01/2011, at 10:37 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
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> I'm sure there will be an online translator that could do the job.
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> LK
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> On 18/01/2011, at 9:10 PM, Chris Gregory wrote:
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> 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:
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>> -----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
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>>>
>>> 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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