The 28th December 1988 saw the first Laughing Gull for the province, found in Lurgan Park Lake Co. Armagh, it remained until the 7th Jan 89. The nineties saw a run of records when this american gull was seen nearly annually, but then records dried up and it wasn't until this year that we had a long overdue one which was found in Ballycastle. The first for Ireland was a bird found in Co.Cork in Aug.1968 and the first for Britain was found in Sussex in July 1923.
(The photo above is of this year's Ballycastle bird )
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