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Remsen,
J.V.
1975
Bonaparte's Gull
Larus philadelphia
May 6 Sloans Lake, Jefferson Co., Colo.: 5
May 10 Jumbo Res, Logan Co., Colo: 4
Nov.27 Oceanside; San Diego Co. Calif.: 150, 25 on Buena Vista Lagoon apparently
were using Double-crested Cormorants to heard fish. A flock of
about 13 cormorants were fishing together in a line, swimming
across the lagoon with the line somewhat diagonal to direction of
movement. The gulls were hovering above the cormorants, diving
down in front of the line of cormorants to pick objects, presumably fish,
from the surface of the water. In the flock of gulls were 9
2nd-yr. Western Gull and a 1st-yr. Ring-billed Gull, doing the same
thing. The cormorants were constantly diving and often no more
than 3 were up at any one time. They moved from the center of
the lagoon to the northern shore and then all the way back across
the lagoon to near the southern shore, all the time accompanied by
the same group of gulls, constantly hovering just above and in front
of the cormorants. All of this took about 15 minutes.