Seals

species:

Common Seal

scientific name:

Phoca vitulina

notes:

Yellow tag with a black six alpha-numeric code.
Tag jaune avec un code noir six alpha-numeric.
Gele tag met een zwarte zes alpha-numeric code.
Gelbes tag mit einem schwarzen sex alpha-numeric stelligen Code.

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

note 2 : we now use TSH051 onwards, with our last seal tagged as TSH074.

note 3 :

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):

Six alpha-numeric code (6 letters/numbers)

countries where ringed:

United Kingdom.

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

TSH