FIGURE 7.

Resightings of ring-billed gulls banded in Minnesota. Observers of gull leg bands reported 134 resightings to the US Bird Banding Laboratory. This map of the United States was created with mapchart.net. The states were colored by general areas of the flyways (Central (yellow) Mississippi (green), and Atlantic (blue)) and the numbers represent the banded gulls observed and reported within the state of the resighting. Note that some birds were observed multiple times and recorded as a resighting when the observation occurred at a location and time that differed from prior resightings. The asterisk indicates the banding location of the gulls. Numbers surrounded by ovals are resightings that occurred only in the winter months of December, January, and February.