The Seaside Heermann's Gulls by Byron & Joanna Chin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Heermann’s Gulls are beautiful seabirds that were thought to breed exclusively on small islands in the Gulf of California and off the Mexican coast, where their numbers are declining due to warming seas and overfishing. In 1999, a few Heermann’s gulls nested on a man-made island on Roberts Lake in Seaside, California. These birds founded the only known nesting colony of Heermann’s Gulls in the United States. Since then, the colony has survived and grown to about 100 individuals despite many challenges and loss of nesting habitat. Today the colony nests on rooftops around Roberts Lake, and in the last three years, they have even harmoniously shared their nesting territory with a colony of California Gulls. Byron and Joanna Chin cover the natural history of the Heermann’s Gull, the history of the Seaside colony, the environmental challenges they have endured, and their efforts in conjunction with Monterey Audubon to protect and help these gulls through monitoring, community outreach, and the deployment of a floating nesting island.
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Sorry I missed the live event! I enjoyed the presentation and forwarded it to all the other Heermanns! Thanks, Debby Heermann.
Thank you, Debby! I'm so pleased to have met you, and to share these awesome gulls with you. 🙂
This was such a nice talk! we meet each other in Hawaii during a PSG meeting, but by that time I was really bad in my english so I couldn't talk with you very much about HEEG. You guys must go to Rasa with me! as a volunteer or just visiting, I go every year during breeding season. Please respond this comment if you're interested, I keep your presentation card so I can send you an email.
Hello Gabriela! Yes, we remember you well - you work with Dr. Velarde, correct? I am not exaggerating when I say that Byron and I have dreamt of visiting Rasa for over a decade. We would love, love, love to join you. Please do contact us! And thank you for watching, and for all the work you're doing with the Heermann's gulls!