After we came home from Morocco and got used to -10 degrees and snow, the long dark evenings was used to punch the gull readings in excel. This work was more extensive than expected, which of course is most joyful. The total number of readings was about 735 of 367 different individuals. The e-mails with observations are at the moment sent to the different project managers and we are really looking forward to get the life histories and ringing informations. When this information is received and we have done some computing we will give a summary of the results as a post on this blog! The summary for the different 'countries' are as follows:
| Country |
Observations |
Number ind. |
| Norway |
231 |
99 |
| The Netherlands |
150 |
79 |
| England |
80 |
38 |
| Belgium |
71 |
37 |
| Denmark |
54 |
28 |
| Spain |
28 |
28* |
| Guernsey |
25 |
10 |
| Scotland |
19 |
8 |
| France |
17 |
6 |
| Germany |
14 |
6 |
| Iceland |
9 |
4 |
| Portugal |
4 |
1 |
| Sweden |
1 |
1** |
| Unknown |
32 |
22 |
*27 Audouin's Gulls and one Black-headed Gull
**Reading of metall ring
The species was dominated by Lesser Black-backed gull (
Larus fuscus) followed by Audouin's Gull (
Larus audouinii)
| Species |
Observations |
Number ind. |
| Lesser Black-backed gull |
706 |
338 |
| Audouin's Gull |
27 |
27 |
| Mediterranean Gull |
1 |
1 |
| Black-headed Gull |
1 |
1 |
We will end this blog with a picture of the reading that in our opinion was the best for us. This male Lesser Black-backed Gull JA8K was ringed on top of the Science building at University of Bergen. He incubated on three eggs but we do unfortunately not know who his girlfriend is. If he stick to her one more year we hopefully get more information in 2013. This picture was taken on the last observation date in Bergen 20th of August 2012.
