A California Gull banded in Mountain View, CA by The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory in 1985 was admitted to the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley on August 10, 2013. This means that the gull was 28 years and 3 months old, a new longevity record for his species.
By August 19, the bird, which had been injured, could stand and eat on its own and it was to be transferred to a flight cage on the 23rd.
A press release, a 1/2 page PDF file, is Here