Gulls

species:

Yellow-legged Gull

scientific name:

Larus michahellis

notes:

White ring with a black four alpha-numeric code : starting letter 'H' / number / number / number.

note 1 : breeding birds are ringed around Crete, Greece. Early June ’08 some 400 birds could be ringed. The rest during the coming years.

note 2 : 100 of them (H900-H999) have been send to Hellenic Ornithological Society (Hellenic Ringing Scheme / Filios Akriotis) and birds will be ringed in colonies near Athens.

note 3 : 107 chicks of YLGs have been ringed with white colour rings (Η000-Η095&
Η100-Η110) (on left tarsus) on the island of Dia, near Heraklion, Crete on 4-6 June. The metal ring on the right tarsus.

note 4 :

email sighting submit:

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:

Greece.

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