Gulls

species:

Great Black-backed Gull

scientific name:

Larus marinus

notes:

White ring with a red four alpha-numeric code : starting letter "L", follwed by a colon ":" followed by letter-letter-number” (eg L:AB1).

note 1 : birds are ringed as pulli on St Georges Island, Looe, Cornwall, England, the site of the largest GBBG colony in Cornwall with about 70-80 pairs.

note 2 : rings read from bottom to top with L : nearest the foot.

note 3 : pay attention to the colon ! (eg L:AA1, L:AA2, … L:AB1, L:AB2 etc).

note 4 : Numbers ringed per year as follows:

2010 - 49
2011 - 91
2012 - 24

note 5 : Scheme extended to Mullion Island, The Lizard and to Falmouth, Cornwall in 2013

email sighting submit:

website information:

GBB Gull Ringing in the Looe Island.

colour-ring type:

Legring : one, coded.

colour-ring colour (of the c-ring):

White [W]

colour-ring code (of the c-ring):

Four alpha-numeric code (4 letters/numbers).

colour-ring position (of the c-ring):

Tarsus right.

countries where ringed:

United Kingdom.

Images:

First letter/number (of the c-ring):