Waders
species:
Purple Sandpiper
scientific name:
Calidris maritima
notes:
Combination of five c-rings.
note 1 : details on the ring-combination are : on the right tibia one orange ring ; on the right tarsus one steel ring over one colour-plastic ring ; on the left tarsus two plastic colour-rings.
note 2 : note that always one orange ring is on the right tibia which means that the bird was ringed on Svalbard during the summer.
note 3 : used colours are orange, red, yellow, dark-green, dark-blue, light-blue, black and white.
note 4 : >500 birds have been ringed.
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website information:
colour-ring type:
Legrings : combination of uncoded.
countries where ringed:
Svalbard.
