Egrets

species: 
Grey Heron
scientific name: 
Ardea cinerea
notes: 

Green rings with a white 3 alpha code, starting with letter 'X' (on tibia).

note 1 : Dr. Andreas Goedecke is the project leader of the Grey Heron colour-marking project in Germany.

note 2 : numbers of ringed birds (mostly juv.): 2003: 144, 2004: 500, 2005: 746, 2006: 344, 2007: 332, 2008: 354, 2009: 243, 2010: 211

note 3 : green rings : code always starting with X

note 4 : white rings : codes start with R, T, V, X, Z.

note 5 : white rings with 4 characters used since 2010 : letter X followed by 3 numbers.

note 6 : very interesting readings were in Spain and Sierra Leone (>5400km. from the ringing place).

note 7 : 

email sighting submit: 
website information: 
http://www.proring.de/projekt_graureiher.html
colour-ring type: 
Legring : one, coded.
colour-ring colour (of the c-ring): 
Dark Green [G]
colour-ring code (of the c-ring): 
Three alpha code (3 letters).
countries where ringed: 
Germany.
First letter/number (of the c-ring): 
X