Barnacle Goose

Dark-blue ring with a white two alpha code and a metal ring under the c-ring.

note 1 : Dark-blue rings with a two alpha-numeric code have already been used on Barnacle geese on > Gotland in 1992 and some smaller numbers in 1993-1996. Very few of these birds are still alive and there is no harm of overlap as these are two different populations.

note 2 : rings used on a UK population, Wales.

Orange ring with a black three alpha code.

note 1 : birds belonging to the Svalbard-population are caught on the Solway in south-west Scotland.

Orange ring with a black two alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : birds belonging to the Svalbard-population are caught on the Solway in south-west Scotland.

note 2 :

Dark-green ring with a white three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : birds belonging to the Svalbard-population are caught on the Solway in south-west Scotland.

Dark-green ring with a white two alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : birds belonging to the Svalbard-population are caught on the Solway in south-west Scotland.

Yellow ring with a black three alpha code.

note 1 : birds belonging to the Svalbard-population are caught on the Solway in south-west Scotland.

note 2 :

Yellow ring with a black two alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : birds belonging to the Svalbard-population are caught on the Solway in south-west Scotland.

note 2 :

Combination of several c-rings.

note 1 : used colours are yellow, red, light-blue, dark-blue, light-green, dark-green, grey, orange, brown, black and white.

note 2 : usually tree rings or two (on one leg) and one at the other leg.

Combination of several c-rings.

note 1 : 356 semi-captive geese are ringed.

Combination of a white ring with a black three alpha-numeric code and a c-ring.

note 1 : project concerns Greenland race birds.

note 2 : also a single c-ring is used, as well as the metal and darvic ring.

note 3 :