Barnacle Goose

Lime green ring with a black two alpha code, letters separated by to vertical line.

note 1 :

Dark blue with a white three alpha-numeric code (on left tarsus) and metal ring (on right tarsus).

note 1 : used codes are : letter, number, number (e.g. A12) reading up.

note 2 : project started in 2020.

note 3 :  local feral breeding population ringed during wing moult.

note 4 : all birds ringed in the county of Cambridgeshire.

note 5 :

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

note 1 : dark-blue rings with a three alpha-numeric code e.g. A00, A01

note 2 : rings used on a UK population.

note 3 :

Black neckband with a white three alpha-numeric code, letter 'L', 'B', 'C' or 'E' or 'A' or 'D' followed by two numbers.

note 1 : letter D seems to be a '0'.

note 2 : used first letters are : C and E ; D ; A.

note 3 :

Orange ring with a black four alpha-numeric code (starting letter 'C'  followed by number/number/letter) (on left leg) and metal ring (on right leg).

note 1 : in 2002 some fifty Barnacles were c-ringed in Finland.

note 2 :

Red neckband with a white three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : project started 2016 in Germany.

note 2 : geese of local breeding populations are ringed.

note 3 :

Red ring with a white three numeric code.

note 1 : codes are part of this project : http://www.cr-birding.org/node/3067

note 2 :

Red ring with a white three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : codes can be letter, number, number OR letter, letter, number.

note 2 : project started 2014 in Germany.

note 3 : geese of local breeding population are ringed.

note 4 :

Combination of a white coded ring (on left leg) and a black coded ring (on right leg).

note 1 : used codes are : - , = , E (= three lines), 1 ... 9, A ... Y

note 2 : 80 female birds are logged with GPS.   

note 3 :

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.