St. Mary's County, Maryland Kelp Gull RBA
March 21, 2006
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- RBA
* Maryland
* Kelp Gull
* March 21, 2006
* MDKG0603.21
- Birds Mentioned
Kelp Gull
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Hotline: Maryland Kelp Gull Update
Date: March 21, 2006
Number: 301-862-4623
To Report: 301-862-4623
Coverage: St. Mary's County, MD Kelp Gull
Compiler: Jane Kostenko
Compiled: March 21, 2006
Transcriber: Jane Kostenko
mailto:jkostenko@somd.lib.md.us
This is an update for the St. Mary's County, Maryland Kelp Gull dated March
21, 2006.
The St. Mary's County, Maryland, Kelp Gull has not been reported in one
year; the last reported sighting (that we know of) was from March 20, 2005, made
by Kyle Rambo, a local birder who re-found the gull one year after Patty Craig
initially located the bird at the Sea Breeze Crabhouse in Sandgates, MD, during
the winter of 1998. If anyone has a more recent sighting, please email directly
to the transcriber. Remaining staff at the Sea Breeze concur that their last
sighting was also around one year ago.
Though fewer in number of the past year, birders have continued to look for
the gull at its usual location.
Though there is no definitive proof that the Kelp Gull has died or moved on,
its remarkable site fidelity (6+ years) would make a relocation now seem
unusual, if not unlikely.
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