CRJ-200 FLT CREW ENCOUNTERS BIRDS ON TKOF; R ENG INGESTS BIRD AND IS SECURED; EMER DECLARED AND ACFT RETURNS FOR LNDG.

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UPON THE INITIATION OF THE TKOF ROLL; ALL ENG INDICATIONS APPEARED NORMAL. SHORTLY AFTER ACFT ROTATION; WE SAW A SEAGULL PASS IN CLOSE PROX ON THE R SIDE OF THE ACFT. AFTER GEAR RETRACTION; WE NOTICED A VIBRATION THROUGHOUT THE ACFT ALONG WITH A CORRESPONDING N1 FAN VIBRATION INDICATION OF ABOUT 3.3 (YELLOW RANGE) ON THE #2 ENG. THE N1 FAN VIBRATION ABNORMAL CHKLIST PROC WAS ACCOMPLISHED WHICH LED TO THE INFLT SHUTDOWN OF THE #2 ENG. THEN THE APPROPRIATE CHKLIST TASKS WERE ACCOMPLISHED AND ATC; THE FLT ATTENDANT; DISPATCH; AND THE PAX WERE NOTIFIED OF OUR SITUATION. AN EMER WAS DECLARED WITH ATC. WE RETURNED FOR A LNDG AT OUR DEP ARPT; THE NEAREST SUITABLE ARPT. THE APCH AND LNDG WERE UNEVENTFUL. WE TAXIED TO THE GATE; AND THE PAX DEPLANED INTO THE JETWAY. DURING THE POSTFLT WALKAROUND INSPECTION; 6 FAN BLADES WERE VISIBLY DAMAGED ON THE #2 ENG ALONG WITH BIRD DEBRIS. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 698977: WE CALLED READY FOR TKOF AT TXWY X AND TWR NOTIFIED US THAT SOME GULLS WERE NOW ON THE RWY NEAR THE CTRLINE ABEAM THE AFOREMENTIONED TXWY. WE WERE ALSO CLRED FOR TKOF. WE ACCEPTED THE TKOF CLRNC AND BEGAN OUR ROLL. MOMENTS BEFORE ROTATION WE SAW SOME GULLS ABOUT THE RWY CTRLINE. ALL BUT 1 QUICKLY FLEW AWAY. AT ROTATION SPD I CALLED 'ROTATE;' AND THE CAPT BEGAN TO ROTATE THE ACFT. AT THE SAME TIME; A GULL FLEW PAST THE R-HAND COCKPIT WINDOWS.