Herring Gull

Red ring with a white 4 alpha-numeric code :
starting letter 'S' followed by a colon = : and number/number/number) (on left leg) and metal ring (on right leg).   

note 1 : example : S:002

note 2 : project begun in 2011 to study survival of rescued / rehabilitated Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Secret World Wildlife Rescue, East Huntspill, Somerset. England.

note 3 : the rings are 35mm tall with an internal diameter of 11mm for Herring.

note 4 :

White ring with a black 4 alpha-numeric code (either with or without a dot).

note 1 : nxxn : where n is a number and x a letter.

note 2 :  Annual Reports are available on the Guernsey Gulls web site (www.guernseygulls.co.uk) and also on the Guernsey Gulls Blogspot (www.guernseygulls.blogspot.com).

note 3 :

Pink or yellow dyed (on head).
Pink or yellow dyed (on nape).

note 1 : birds are marked by Food and Environment Research Agency on a landfill in North Yorkshire.

White wingtags with a black 3 alpha-numeric code (1, 2 or 3 symbols).

Blue wingtags with a white 3 alpha-numeric code (1, 2 or 3 symbols).

note 1 : identical code on each wing and the engraved code can be found out, still, even if both wingtags are seen incompletely (min. two symbols each tag).

note 2 : most tags have -for the time being- three characters.

note 3 : in Spain another project with white tags is running. No details are know yet.

note 4 : among some 500 wing-tagged gulls some 20 are non-Herring gulls.

note 5 : on the first of July '01 some 9000 readings of this project.

note 6 : 4 birds have been ringed in Central-Poland with a blue tags with a single white letter. (contact : Greg Neubauer, grechuta@stornit.gda.pl ]

note 7 : some birds are Caspian Gull (see also http://www.cr-birding.org/node/3209) and soem birds are michahellis.

note 8 :

Red ring with a white 4 alpha-numeric code (starting letter 'P' and 3 numbers) (on right tarsus).

Please report your sightings using the new POLRING platform, where you are getting an immediate access to the life histories. Please visit ring.stornit.gda.pl and register to create an account. After your account is created, you may add records of birds you resighted (by using option 'New record'). There are many fields to fill in, that define your records precisely, but in  most cases you just select one option from the predefined list. You may upload photographs accompanying the record of course. When you use the platform, it is a matter of hours (up to 2 days) to have an access to the full life-history, assuming that ringing data are in the system (they are not only if a bird was ringed very recently, the system then asks the ringer to provide data as soon as possible. This is anyway sooner than email). If you experience any problems using the system, write to:
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note 1 : used code are P001-P650.

note 2 : species are L. argentatus, L. cachinnans and their hybrids.

Red ring with a white 4 alpha-numeric code (starting letter 'K').

note 1 : used codes are K701-800 (for 1999) ; K801-900 (for 2000) ; K901-000 (for 2001) ; KA01-00 (for 2002-03) ; KH01-00 (91 rings used in 2003 ) ; KE01-00 (only three rings were used in 2003) ; KE00-KE99 (are in use since 2005) and KN00-KN99 (since 2006).
note 2 : birds are ringed by Nikolai Yakovets.  

Red ring with a white 5 alpha-numeric code, starting letter 'C' followed by number/number/number/letter.

note 1 : up to 2014, a total of 595 rings delivered since 1998.

note 2 :

Red ring with a white 4 alpha-numeric code (starting letter 'H') and metal ring (on other leg).

note 1 : Hxxx : xxx stands for numbers and letters.
note 2 : examples  are H99X, H123, HA67, HX43, H789, H23A.
note 3 : rings are to be read from bottom to top, most rings have a “checkpoint”.
note 4 : birds are ringed at Schleswig- Holstein.
note 5 : some rings are used at Lesser Black-backed Gulls, see this species.

Red ring with a white 3 alpha code (on left tarsus) and metal ring (on right tarsus).

note 1 : only letters are used on our rings, numbers are not used.

note 2 : the following letters have not been used : E, G, I, M, O, Q .

note 3 : on the 4 letter codes there is a check spot between two of the letters.

note 4 : most rings are fitted so that the code reads from bottom upwards.

note 5 : from 2020 onwards first letter will be "X".

note 6 :

Ring with code (1 letter or number or 1, 2, 3 horizontal line).

note 1 : the project has been finished, sightings are -as always- welcome and will be answered.
note 2 : the two rings (2.5cm high) on each leg are typical for this project.
note 3 : the inscription on the blue, green, red and black rings is white, while the inscription on the yellow, orange and white rings black is.
note 4 : there is a variation in the rings with horizontal lines. 1 horizontal line can be on top or in the middle. 2 horizontal lines can be on top, in the middle or 1 on top and 1 on bottom. The ringcode is as followed : 1 horizontal line is - , two horizontal lines is "F" and 3 horizontal lines are "3". Of course the letter F and the number 3 is not used in the combinations.