Bean Goose

White neckband with a black two or three numeric code.

note 1 : white GPS-neckband tags which also have black solar panels. Inscriptions have a 2 or 3 digit code (2 or 3 number code)

note 2 : About 50 Tundra Bean Geese have been tagged during 2016-2025 in the Netherlands, Germany and Russia.

note 3 : Birds ringed in Germany have an additional yellow legring (3 numbers).

note 4 :

White neckband with a black two or three numeric code.

note 1 : white GPS-neckband tags which also have black solar panels. Inscriptions have a 2 or 3 digit code (2 or 3 number code)

note 2 : about 50 Tundra Bean Geese have been tagged during 2016-2025 in the Netherlands, Germany and Russia.

note 3 : birds ringed in Germany have an additional yellow legring (3 numbers).

note 4 :

Yellow legring with a black three numeric code (001-299).

note 1 : Taiga and Tundra Bean Geese tagged with GPS-neckband tags in Germany in 2018-2024 have an additional yellow legring (3 numbers).

note 2 :

Orange ring with a black three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : used code is A10.

note 2 : bird ringed in Oulo, Finland.

note 3 :

Grey neckband with a black (all digits follow) three alpha-numeric code (letter "X" / number / number).

note 1 : GPS-tags which also have black solar panels.

note 2 : no overlapping codes with the white rings.

note 3 :

White neckband with a black three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : white or grey GPS-neckband tags which also have black solar panels. Inscriptions have a 3 digit code (letter A or B with 2 numbers or a 3 number code)

note 2 : 32 Tundra Bean Geese and 29 Taiga Bean Geese ringed during 2016-2024.

note 3 : Birds ringed in November 2018 & 2021 (Lower Odra national park/Germany), November 2024 near lake Kummerow/Germany and in January 2025 in the Netherlands have an additional yellow legring (3 numbers).

note 4 :

Blue neckring with a white three alpha code.

note 1 : code is one vertical and two horizontal.

note 2 : altogether 42 Taiga Bean Geese and 36Tundra Bean Geese were neckbanded (letters E, O, Y) during spring migration 2007-2012 in northern Sweden (Umea, Lulea) by Adjan de Jong, Thomas Heinicke and colleagues.

note 3 : 58 Taiga Bean Geese were neckbanded (Letters E and Y) as moult visitors in Lapland/Sweden in summers 2012-2015 by Adjan de Jong, Thomas Heinicke and colleagues.

note 4 : 71 Taiga Bean Geese were neckbanded (letter E, letter K of series KJA-KJZ, KLA-KLZ) in November 2014 and 2015 at Lille Vildmose/Denmark by Tony Fox, Kees Polderdijk and colleagues. These birds got an additional white legring to study the amount of neckband losses.

note 5 :

White neckband with a black (all digits follow) three alpha-numeric code (letter "X" / number / number).

note 1 : GPS-tags which also have black solar panels.

note 2 : no overlapping codes with the grey rings.

note 3 :

Blue neckring with a white three alpha code.

note 1 : code is one vertical and two horizontal.

note 2 :

Red neckring with a white three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : code is one vertical and two horizontal.