Saturday, January 1, 2000

Herring Gull Colourringprojects with a Blue ring

Sightings (Photo's) of Herring Gulls with a Blue ring

BLUE [AVAW] / white 
BLUE [F.LAH] / white
BLUE [GCA-P] / white
BLUE [NMAB] / white
BLUE [Y-JZ] / white



Herring Gull-projects with WINGTAGS

White wingtags with black code (1, 2 or 3 symbols) and Blue wingtags with white code (1, 2 or 3 symbols).

AG Möwen NRW, A. Buchheim, c/o Biol.Stat. Witten, Am Hang 2, D-58453 Witten, Germany.
E-mail: agmoewen@nawit.de
E-mail: abu.cachellis@web.de

Note 1: identical code on each wing and the engraved code can be found out, still, even if both wingtags are seen incompletely (min. two symbols each tag).
Note 2: note: most tags have -for the time being- three characters.
Note 3: in Spain another project with white tags is running. No details are know yet.
Note 4: among some 500 wing-tagged gulls some 20 are non-Herring gulls.
Note 5: on the first of July '01 some 9000 readings of this project.
Note 6 : 4 birds have been ringed in Central-Poland with a blue tags with a single white letter. (contact : Greg Neubauer, grechuta@stornit.gda.pl ].

Herring Gull-project: RED [code ] / white by Roland-Jan Buijs

Red ring with white code (mainly on right tibia).

Roland-Jan Buijs, Philips van Dorpstraat 49, NL-4698 RV Oud-Vossemeer, The Netherlands.
Tel.: +31-(0)-166-61.73.70.
Mobile : +31-(0) 6-18672392
E-mail: rjbuijs@hetnet.nl or r.buijs@rocwb.nl
website: http://www.gull-research.org/

Note: rings are 1,8cm. in height and re placed above the knee (on the tibia) for better observation results in the colony (high vegetation) and on rubbish-dumps.
Note: the position of the metal ring can be left tibia or left tarsus.

Sightings of Herring Gulls with black ring

BLACK [JN 364] / white
BLACK [D] / white

Herring Gull Colourringprojects with a BLACK ring

Black c-ring with a yellow 4 alpha-numeric code (on left leg) and BTO-metal ring (on right leg).


Kevin Scott, Manx Ringing Group, c/o Manx BirdLife, 35 New Road, Laxey, Isle of Man, IM4 7BG, British Isles, UK.
e-mail: kev@wm.im
website: http://www.manxringer.blogspot.com/

Note 1 : last position uses each letter of the alphabet and * = number 0-9.
Note 2 : used codes are T*TR through to T*TZ ; T*UA through to T*UZ ; T*VA through to T*VZ ;
T*WA through to T*WZ ; T*XA through to T*XZ ; T*YA through to T*YZ ; T*ZA through to T*ZZ.
Note 4 : birds are ringed on the Isle of Man, British Isles.
Note 5 : this blog contains a link to a document giving the details of the scheme above.
http://manxringer.blogspot.com/2010/07/colour-ringing-schemes-used-by-manx.html


Combination of two c-rings [ (black with a 2 digit/alphanumeric code) and white (with letter “A”) ] and a metal ring.

Jean-Pierre Leys, 55 rue Dufour, FR-59270 Bailleul, France.
e-mail: jean-pierre.leys@wanadoo.fr

Note 1: used colours are black (below) and white (above). Reading upwards.
Note 2: flying birds carry a black ring with 2 alphanumeric code and a white ring with the letter A on right tarsus. Metal ring is on the left tibia.
Note 3: pulli carry a black ring with 2 alphanumeric code and a white ring with the letter A on left tarsus. Metal ring is on the right tibia.
Note 4 : letters not used : B, D, G, I, O, Q.

Black ring with white code ( letter J and 3 or 4 numbers and/or letters ).

Direct report : http://www.ringmerking.no/
The purpose of this page is to make it easy for observers to report information on colour-ringed birds. After registering as a user, you can report the colour code you have seen and immediately receive data on where the bird has been ringed and observed before.

Project leader : Lista Ringing Group, Boks 171, 4558 Vanse, Norway.
e-mail: clifu@c2i.net

Note 1 : birds are ringed in South-Norway.

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Black (plastic) ring with white code (on tarsus).

Dmitrijs Boiko, Dept. of Zoology, Latvian Museum of Natural History, K. Barona street 4, Riga, LV-1712, Latvia.

tel.: +371-735.60.41. ; fax: +371-735.60.24. ; mobile : +371-26416423.



note 1 : used codes and contacts are:

S201-S300 : Iļja Boiko : e-mail: boich87@inbox.lv



S301-S400 : Dmitrijs Boiko : e-mail: dmitrijs.boiko@gmail.com



S401-S500 : Aigars Kalvāns : e-mail: aigars.kalvans@vmd.gov.lv

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Black ring with code.

Riga, Latvian Bird Ringing Center, Institute of Biology, 3 Miera st., Salaspils LV-2169, Latvia.

tel.: +371-2-94.53.93.

fax.: +371-2-94.49.86.

mobile: +371-64.48.210.

e-mail: ring@latnet.lv

note 1 : used codes are S and 3 numbers.

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Black ring with code Cxxx or Cxxxx (where x is a number or letter).

Ringing Centre, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoological Museum, P.O. Box 17, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.

tel.: +358-9-191.28.847 or +358-9-191-28.848.

e-mail : elmu_ren@cc.helsinki.fi

website : http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/birding.

note 1: 3500 black rings delivered during 1993-2004.

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Black ring with code.

Kalev Rattiste, Institute of Zoology and Botany, Academy of Sciences of Estonia, 21 Vanemuise St., 2400 Tartu, Estonia.

e-mail: kratt@zbi.ee

fax: +372-7-433.472.

note 1: used code is: three letters (E,J,K,L,M,P) / numbers (00 till 99).

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Black ring with code (3 alphanumeric code).

Lithuanian Bird Ringing Centre, Zoological Museum, Laisves aleja 106, 3000 Kaunas, Lithuania.

note 1: the two numbers are separated by letter.

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Black ring with white code KJxxx (where x is a number or letter).

Risto Juvaste, Viljakaari 4, FIN-80510 Onttola, Finland.

tel.: +358-13-801.293.

gsm : +358-50-36.76.167.

e-mail : " rr juvaste fi "

website : www.juvaste.fi

note 1: 50 birds ringed in Russian Karelia, no metal ring.

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Black ring (on left leg) with white code (3 numbers) and metal ring (on right leg).

Steve Hales, 17 Weatherbury Way, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2ED, UK.

e-mail: steve_hales@btinternet.com

Terry Coombs, 51 Rip Croft, Portland, Dorset DT5 2EE, United Kingdom.

tel.: +44-(0)-1305-82.10.37

e-mail : terry@fraggle99.freeserve.co.uk

note 1: used code is for 1995:001-060 ; for 1996:061-106 ; for 1997:107-131 ; for 1998:132-153 ; 1999:154-197 ; 2000: 200-266 ; 2001: 269-344 ; 2002: 345-367.

note 2: for 2005 : starting at 401 but due to a non-arriving by post of the of c-rings, the projects is delayed.

Herring Gull Colourringprojects with a RED ring

Red ring with white code (mainly on right tibia).

Roland-Jan Buijs, Philips van Dorpstraat 49, NL-4698 RV Oud-Vossemeer, The Netherlands.
Tel.: +31-(0)-166-61.73.70.
Mobile : +31-(0) 6-18672392
E-mail: rjbuijs@hetnet.nl or r.buijs@rocwb.nl
website: http://www.gull-research.org/

Note: rings are 1,8cm. in height and re placed above the knee (on the tibia) for better observation results in the colony (high vegetation) and on rubbish-dumps.
Note: the position of the metal ring can be left tibia or left tarsus.


Red ring (on left tarsus) with white code (3 or 4 letters) and metal ring (on right tarsus).

Landguard Bird Observatory, Mike Marsh, 7 Deben Way, Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 2NS, United Kingdom.
E-mail: mike@imafxt.co.uk or mikecmarsh@tiscali.co.uk

Note 1 : only letters are used on our rings, numbers are not used
Note 2 : the following letters have not been used:- E, G, I, M, O, Q .
Note 3: on the 4 letter codes there is a check spot between two of the letters
Note 4: most rings are fitted so that the code reads from bottom upwards


Red ring with white code (Hxxx) and (Helgoland) metal ring (on other leg), allways “H” at beginning.

Dr. Sönke Martens, Carl Gördelerweg 16, D-25524 Itzehoe, Germany.
e-mail : S.Martens@KH-Itzehoe.de
note 1 : xxx stands for numbers and letters.
note 2 : examples are H99X, H123, HA67, HX43, H789, H23A
note 3 : rings are to be read from bottom to top, most rings have a “checkpoint”.
note 4 : birds are ringed at Schleswig- Holstein.
note 6 : some rings are used at Lesser Black-backed Gulls, see this species.
note 3 : most rings are used on LBB Gulls, see this species.

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Dark-red ring with code Cnnnx (where n is a number and x a letter).

Ringing Centre, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoological Museum, P.O. Box 17, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
tel.: +358-9-191.28.847 or +358-9-191-28.848.
e-mail : elmu_ren@cc.helsinki.fi
website : http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/birding.

note 1: 450 rings were used only during 1998 for fledglings for age identification studies. That colour shall not be in use anymore in Finland.


Red ring with white code.

Belarus Bird Ringing Centre. att. Tatiana Pavlushchick,
e-mail : bym.minsk@gmail.com

note 1: used codes are K701-800 (for 1999) ; K801-900 (for 2000) ; K901-000 (for 2001) ; KA01-00 (for 2002-03) ; KH01-00 (91 rings used in 2003 ) ; KE01-00 (only three rings were used in 2003) ; KE00-KE99 (are in use since 2005) and KN00-KN99 (since 2006).
note 2 : birds are ringed by Nikolai Yakovets.

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Red ring (on right tarsus) with white code (letter P and 3 numbers).



Gdansk Ornithological Station, ul. Nadwislanska 108, 80-680 Gdansk 40, Poland.



tel./fax.: +48-58-308-07-59.



e-mail: pchyl@stronit.gda.pl



note 1: used code is: P001-P650.

Herring Gull-projects

[ BLACK ] - [ GREY ] - [ DARK-BLUE ] - [ PALE-BLUE ] - [ GREEN ] - [ YELLOW ]

[ ORANGE ] - [ RED ] - [ WHITE ] - [ DYED ] - [ SINGLE ] - [ COMBINATION ] - [ WINGTAG ]