Skuas

species:

Long-tailed Skua

scientific name:

Stercorarius longicaudus

notes:

Green ring with a white 2 alpha code (on one tarsus) and steel ring (on other leg).

note 1 : Swedish metal/steel rings are used.

note 2 : rings are green with a white two alpha code. Starting letters are A, B, K, O, N and P.

note 3 : project in Ammarnas, Swedish Lapland, started in 2010.

note 4 : in 2011 and 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):

Dark Green [G]

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

Two alpha code (2 letters).

countries where ringed:

Sweden.