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Ring-bill, May 18, 1955
III

[[image]] Pronounced FR with extreme R.
7:21 pm.

 Landing Call is certainly relatively rare now. Perhaps even rarer than earlier in the season down at Delta and Portage

Perfectly good and typical M can be given from semi-U-semi-O posture or from typical O.

Bob or Ralphie coming 8:15 p.m.

Fake alarm. (Notice that Silent Panics are still present when activity increases, as during this evening)

 A thought about aerial hostility has just struck me. Noticed bird flying around, giving LCN's, who may have shown a slight tendency to glide with set wings when he approached other flying birds. Does this help to explain the ritualized glides in various species? A way of "inhibiting" forward motion.

When one wing only is spread during a ground dispute, it seems to be usually the wing away from the opponent.

Bob coming now 9:00 p.m.

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[[image: pencil sketch of gull with back feathers ruffled and head pointing down]] left margin straight & hatched lines