Black-legged Kittiwake

Lime Green ring with a white two alpha code.

note 1 : project started 2004.

note 2 : birds ringed in the  Hjelmsøy region of Norway.

Combination of max. 3 rings.

note 1 :

Dark-green ring with a white two alpha code.

note 1 : rings are 10mm high.

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Dark blue ring with a white two alpha code.

note 1 : project started in 2008

note 2 : some birds fitted with data loggers

note 3 : 88 birds ringed outside of Norway: Fair Isle (RU-TB), Rathlin (TC-UJ), Stóra Dímun (UK-YR), Hafnarhólmi (YS-ZZ)

note 4 : 289 birds ringed in total.

Red ring with a white two alpha code.

note 1 : possible overlap with a UK project.

note 2 : 67 birds ringed by 2012

note 3 : birds ringed at Røst, North Norway.

Yellow ring with a black two alpha code.

note 1 : the project started in 2003 and intends to monitor survival of the breeding population at the Røst islands, Lofoten, Norway.

note 2: 136 birds ringed by 2012.

Combination of 4 rings, including metal ring.

note 1: the 3 rings are coloured (1 of which a horizontal stripe e.g. orange-white-orange).

note 2: maximum 2 rings per leg are used.

White ring with a black 3 alpha code.

note 1 : this project should start during summer 2003 in collaboration with Norwegian researchers on Svalbard.

note 2 : the plastic rings have the following characteristics : length 18mm, internal diameter 7,5mm.

note 3 : code is 3 time engraved.

c-ring with code (letter ‘D’ or letter ‘d’ or letter ‘T’ + individual combination of unmarked rings on other leg).

note 1 : code is repeated 4 times around the ring.

note 2 : letter ‘D’ or letter ‘d’ is for the project based at Dunbar, East Lothian Scotland, where 1900 birds were ringed upto 2008. 

note 3 : a different colour is used each year

note 4 : letter ‘T’ is for the project based on the River Tyne, Gateshead North East England where 141 birds were ringed up to 2008.

note 5 : ringing has now finished but many birds are still alive and sightings are still needed.

Red ring with a white code 3 alpha code.

note 1 : 3 letter rings in use since 2010.  prior to that 2 alpha-numeric codes used (see seperate project)

note 2 : the project runs on Puffin Island, North Wales by the SCAN ringing group.

note 3 :