Ortolan Bunting

Combination of c-rings :
* 1 c-ring (project/year-marker) and metal ring (on left tarsus).
* 2 c-rings (on right tarsus).

note 1 : used colours are : white, black, violet, blue, green, yellow, red and orange.

note 2 : used colours for year-marker are : 2022 : orange + metal ring (on left leg)   2023 : black + metal ring (on left leg)  2024 : white + metal ring (on left leg) 

note 3 :

Yellow ring with a black two alpha-numeric code (on one leg) and metal ring (on other leg).

note 1 : used codes are letter/number or number/letter.

note 2 : 

White ring with a black two alpha-numeric code (on one leg) and metal ring (on other leg).

note 1 : used codes are letter/number or number/letter.

note 2 : 

Dark-blue ring with a white three alpha-numeric code (on one leg) and metal ring (on other leg).

note 1 : 

Combination of 2 c-rings (on one leg) and metal ring (on other leg).

note 1 : pay attention to the colours as there is green and light-green (so called pistachio-colour).

note 2 : the birds have been ringed on the Plateau du Vercors (Drôme, France) during the breeding season.

note 3 :

Combination of 3 c-rings and metal ring : 2 rings on each leg.

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

note 2 : first birds ringed in 2004 en 2005 and the project continues in 2008.

note 3 :

Combination of c-rings :
* one c-ring over metal ring (on left leg) [=project-marker]
* two c-rings (on right leg). 

note 1 : used colour for the c-ring (on left leg) is green in 2013, red in 2014, white in 2015.

note 2 : used colours are white, black, orange, yellow, light-blue, grey, red.

note 3 : this schemed is also used in Croatia (light-blue or orange as project-marker) with a focus on food preferences (telephoto photography of breeding individuals), juvenile dispersal, passage routes, genetics, etc.
Most of the work will be done in Croatia, and there is a chance some individuals will be ringed on Slovenian territory.

note 4 :