Skuas
species:
Parasitic Skua
scientific name:
Stercorarius parasiticus
notes:
Red ring with a white 3 alpha-numeric code (on one tarsus), starting with X.
note 1 : Russian steel rings are used.
note 2 : rings are red with black inscription: letter X followed by 2 digits between 63 and 78.
note 3 : project in Tobseda, Russia.
note 4 : in 2014, adults were equiped with geolocators attached to blue rings. In these birds, the metal ring is on the left tibia, the colour ring on the left tarsus, and the logger/blue ring on the right tarsus.
email sighting submit:
colour-ring type:
Legring : one, coded.
colour-ring colour (of the c-ring):
Red [R]
colour-ring code (of the c-ring):
Three alpha code (3 letters).
countries where ringed:
Russia.
First letter/number (of the c-ring):
X
