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Banding Gulls and ‘Terns 
HEN the Inland Bird Banding Association was formed, its officers 
undertook the job of starting a campaign to band birds that nested 
in colonies. The Islands of the Great Lakes offered the best oppor- 
tunities, so a list was made of all the known nesting sites available and 
volunteers were called for to band the young birds upon these islands. 
W.S. McCrea of Chicago was among the first to take up the work; and 
in 1922 he banded eighty Herring Gulls and forty Caspian Terns. 
In 1923 Mr. F. C. Lincoln of the Biological Survey joined with Mr. 
McCrea and they banded four hundred and fifty Gulls, two hundred 
Caspian Terns and a hundred Common Terns. In 1924 the record 
increased to five hundred Caspian Terns, one hundred and forty-four 
Common Terns and three hundred Herring Gulls. In 1925 they banded 
nine hundred and forty-five Herring Gulls, six hundred and fifty-one 
Caspian Terns and one hundred and seventy-four Common Terns. 
Unfortunately, in 1926, Mr. Lincoln had been away and Mr. McCrea 
was not well so there was no work done in the Beaver Islands in Lake 
Michigan. 
Walter S. Hastings of South Lyon, Michigan, went to the Lone Tree 
Islands in 1924 and banded one thousand, one hundred and fifty-six 
Common Terns. In 1925 he banded fifty Herring Gulls, one thousand, 
four hundred and seventy-four Common Terns and in 1926 he banded 
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: Photo by Walter E. Hastings 
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