Gulls

species:

Yellow-legged Gull

scientific name:

Larus michahellis

notes:

White ring with a black four alpha-numeric code : 3 numbers and 1 letter OR 2 numbers and 2 letters.

note 1 : used letters are : A, B, H, J, K, L, N, P.

note 2 : used series are 000A-999A and 000H-999H and 000J-999J.

note 3 : a total of 512 chicks have been ringed with both darvic ring on tibia and metal ring on the site Salses-Leucate lagoon.

note 4 : as the Excel database runs out of possibilities, a new database [SGBDR or Système de Gestion de Bases de Données Relationnel] will be produced by the IUT de Carcassone. The database will be finished by the end of June 2004 and only from that moment your resightings will be send.

note 5 : distribution and amount of rings placed in the Languedoc-Roussillon : 1999, Leucate, 509 ; 2000, Lattes, 13 ; 2000, Leucate , 853 ; 2002, Canet-en-Roussillon, 9 ; 2002, Leucate, 945 ; 2003, Fitou, 296 ; 2003, Lattes, 1209.

note 6 :

email sighting submit:

email sighting submit (2):

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).

countries where ringed:

France.