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From: zz96sr@net1.ucsd.edu (Steve Rusk)
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Subject: Green Gull?!?
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Date: 25 Aug 89 01:45:29 GMT
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     You might think I'm crazy, but.......
     I was camped out near Lee Vining, Calif., about 2 miles from Mono
Lake.  The guy in the campsite next to me had been fishing and was feeding
the sea gulls fish entrails from cleaning his fish.
     Three gulls (California or Western?) were perched on a rock, waiting
for handouts.  Two of the gulls were pretty normal looking.  The third
was GREEN!!  About the color of a package of Wrigley's Doublemint gum.
     The color was uniform -- even the feet.  It was a little darker under
the wings.
     The most believable explanation I've heard is that it was done on
purpose for tracking reasons -- sort of like banding.
     Anybody heard of this practice?  Honest; I only had one beer!


                                                     --Steve