Egrets

species:

Grey Heron

scientific name:

Ardea cinerea

notes:

White ring with a black 4 alpha-numeric code (on tibia), starting letter 'X'.

note 1 : Dr. Andreas Goedecke is the project leader of the Grey Heron colour-marking project in Germany and since winter 2016 also The Netherlands.

note 2 : numbers of ringed birds (mostly juv.): 2003: 144, 2004: 500, 2005: 746, 2006: 344, 2007: 332, 2008: 354, 2009: 243, 2010: 211, 2011: 135, 2012: 92, 2013: 138, 2014: 218, 2015: 179,

note 3 : white rings with 4 alpha-numeric code are used since 2010 : first letter X followed by 3 numbers or „X“/letter/number/number.

note 4 : white rings with the code X161-X190 and XA00-XA99 (on left tibia) and metal ring (on right tibia) are birds ringed by Jan Biemans in the south-east of Brabant and central-Limburg, The Netherlands”.

note 5 : very interesting readings were in Spain and Sierra Leone (>5400km. from the ringing place).

note 6 : 20 rings were used 2017 in Egypt (Lake Nasser).

note 7 : the last years between 70 and 200 herons per year were ringed in Germany.

note 8 :

email sighting submit:

colour-ring type:

Legring : one, coded.

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

White [W]

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

Four alpha-numeric code (4 letters/numbers).

countries where ringed:

Germany.

First letter/number (of the c-ring):