Gulls

species:

Herring Gull

scientific name:

Larus argentatus

notes:

White wingtags with a black 3 alpha-numeric code (1, 2 or 3 symbols).

Blue wingtags with a white 3 alpha-numeric code (1, 2 or 3 symbols).

note 1 : identical code on each wing and the engraved code can be found out, still, even if both wingtags are seen incompletely (min. two symbols each tag).

note 2 : most tags have -for the time being- three characters.

note 3 : in Spain another project with white tags is running. No details are know yet.

note 4 : among some 500 wing-tagged gulls some 20 are non-Herring gulls.

note 5 : on the first of July '01 some 9000 readings of this project.

note 6 : 4 birds have been ringed in Central-Poland with a blue tags with a single white letter. (contact : Greg Neubauer, grechuta@stornit.gda.pl ]

note 7 : some birds are Caspian Gull (see also http://www.cr-birding.org/node/3209) and soem birds are michahellis.

note 8 :

email sighting submit:

email sighting submit (2):

colour-ring type:

Wingtag : coded.

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

White [W]

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

Three alpha-numeric code (3 letters/numbers).

countries where ringed:

Germany.