Main page Report Watch data Help/FAQ cr@ringmerking.net     E-Mail: Password: Colour Ringing 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. What can be reported here So far you can report: - Mute Swan with the following colour rings: Black ring with three white characters Report Mute Swan here - Bean geese with the following colour rings: Yellow neck ring with black characters and Black ring with white characters One letter and two numbers. Report Bean geese with yellow ring here Report Bean geese with black ring here Read more about the project here: http://www.birdlife.no/prosjekter/sadgaas.php - Barnacle geese with the following colour rings: Grey ring with three black letters Report Barnacle geese here - Cormorant with the following colour rings: Black ring with white characters All the rings are coded with three letters. Report Cormorant here - Water rail with the following colour rings: Combination of 1 colour ring on the tibia and 1 up to 3 colour rings on the tarsus There are no characters at the rings. Report Water rails here - Bar-tailed Godwit with the following colour rings: White ring with black characters All the rings are coded with letters and numbers (four altogether) starting with "JJ". Report Bar-tailed Godwit here - Gulls (except Kittiwake) with the following colour rings: Pale blue ring with black characters for large gulls Dark blue ring with white characters for large gulls Black ring with white characters for large gulls White ring with black characters for small gulls All the rings are coded with letters and numbers (four altogether (and five for black and white rings)) starting with a "J". Report gulls here - Kittiwake with the following colour rings: Black ring with white characters All the rings are coded with three letters/numbers. Report Kittiwake here - Common Tern with the following colour rings: Black ring with white characters All the rings are coded with three letters/numbers. Report Common Tern here You will find information on who you should contact for birds with other colour combinations on "European colour-ring Birding" www.cr-birding.be. A metal ring should be reported to Stavanger Museum at this site: www.nhm.uio.no/fagene/zoologi/fugl/ringmerking/Rapport_gjenfunn.htm Purple Sandpipers with orange flag. About 660 Purple Sandpipers were colour flagged on the South Cape, Spitzbergen in the summer and autumn 2009. Left tarsus metal ring. Left tibea yellow colour ring. Right tibea orange flag engraved with three black letters. If you see a flock of Purple Sandpipers can you please check if any are marked. If there is a orange flag try and read off the letters. Read from left to right whichever way the flag is pointing. If possible please document the sighting with a photo.. Read more about the project here. Red Knots with yellow flag. In May 2006-2009 ca 1,800 Red Knots were colour ringed in Porsangerfjord, north Norway. There is a yellow flag engraved with three black letters on the left tibea and a red ring on the right tibea. Over 40 birds have been sighted in north Norway away from Porsangerfjord and over 100 abroad. Please send observations to Jim Wilson jimwils@frisurf.no (Adresse: Sandneset, 8380 Ramberg Tel 952 81 888). If it is not possible to read off the letters we are still interested in receiving observations of birds with a yellow flag. Results from the project are published in December each year in the Wader Study Group Bulletin - the international journal of shorebird science. Read more here. Do you have a colour ringing project? There will be more projects included here in the near future. If you have a project that you want to promote on these pages, please contact administrator cr@ringmerking.net. The only demand is that every bird has its individual colour code and that EURING-agreement is needed in order to avoid overlapping projects (www.cr-birding.be). The projects on this page are mainly Norwegian, but other projects can be assessed. Proposals for improvements This site will be regularly updated. If you have suggestions to things that can be improved or any good ideas, please contact cr@ringmerking.net.

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