Seals

species:

Common Seal

scientific name:

Phoca vitulina

notes:

Yellow tag with a black five numeric code.
Tag jaune avec un code noir cinq numeric.
Gele tag met een zwarte vijf numeric code.
Gelbes tag mit einem schwarzen funfstelligen Code.

note 1 : tag is placed on the right flipper for females and the left for males.

note 2 : used codes are : first 50 tags were codes BR001 to BR050.

note 3 : we now use TSH051 onwards, with our last seal tagged as TSH074.

note 4 :

email sighting submit:

contactperson:

Tynemouth Seal Hospital at Tynemouth Aquarium, Richard Ilderton

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

Yellow [Y]

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

Five alpha-numeric code (5 letters/numbers).

countries where ringed:

United Kingdom.

Images:

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