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Notice to Watch for Dyed Terns

Published in 1964

Especially to observers in the Gulf Coast Area.

If you see a green tern on your next field trip, do not turn in your binoculars. simply notify Lovett Williams. Game & Fresh Water Fish Commission. P.O. Box 908, Lake City, Florida or R. W. Skinner. Department of Conservation, Montgomery, Alabama. Be sure to give the date, exact locality. and color. Royal and Sandwich Terns are being dyed as part of a life history and migration study on Petit Bois and the Chandeleur Islands.


Author:
Volume Number: 12 Year Published: 1964
Issue Number: 2
Page Number: 25

Link to article: http://birdlife.aosbirds.org/1964/Vol 12 No. 2_1964_p24-25.pdf
Link to the full issue of BirdLife: http://birdlife.aosbirds.org/1964/Vol 12 No. 2_1964.pdf
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Published on:
January 19, 2018

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