Gulls

species:

Black-headed Gull

scientific name:

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

notes:

Black ring with a white three alpha-numeric code (on right tarsus).

note 1 : used code is 1 letter and 2 numbers.

note 2 : during 1998 some 350 pulli have been ringed.

note 3 : from '98 on pulli are c-ringed on left tarsus and metal ringed on right tibia, while birds ringed during winter are c-ringed on right tarsus and metal ringed on left tibia.

note 4 : during summer 2000, in the colony of Oye Plage (France) 279 juv. Black-headed gulls have been ringed with a black ring.

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colour-ring type:

Legring : one, coded.

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

Black (Niger) [N]

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

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

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

Tarsus right.

countries where ringed:

France.