Photo: Julie Tremblay
| Participation fee | $0 |
| Expenses | $0 |
| Spend the time | outdoors |
| Location | anywhere |
| Children | no |
| Primary school | no |
| Secondary school | yes |
| Teaching materials | no |
Required Gear:
Binoculars or spotting scope are useful but sometimes, the gull
can be approached to allow reading of its band.
Tracking ring-billed gulls
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More than 7,000 ring-billed gulls have been marked near Montreal, Quebec with individually coded bands to track their movements throughout their annual cycle. We are more specifically interested by their post-breeding dispersal and their fidelity to their colony. Repeated observations of individuals also allow us to estimate annual survival. This is part of a larger study that aimed at understanding the behavior and population dynamics of these birds within an integrated management framework. |

