An interesting recovery

On the 3rd February Alan found a dead adult Lesser Blackback Gull that had presumably died after a collision with some power cables out near Lollingdon.

Details were sent to both the BTO and to the Natural History Museum in Brussels, Belgium as it had a Belgian ring.

We received some information back from Belgium today:

The bird was ringed as an adult at Zeebrugge, Belgium on the 20th June 2007 so the bird was at least 16 years old when it died, 304 Km west of where it was ringed.