Gulls

species:

Caspian Gull

scientific name:

Larus cachinnans

notes:

Yellow ring with a black 4 alpha code (first letter “P”).

note 1 : used letters are A, B, C, D, E, H, K, L, N, P, S, T, U, V, X, Z.
P always as first letter.

note 2 : codes are used in C and E Europe (Poland, Ukraine, Russia) for L. argentatus, L. cachinnans, L. michahellis, L. fuscus heuglini (probably also L. [f./c.] barabensis) and hybrids. Russian and some Polish birds frequently are left unidentified during ringing, due to difficulties of assigning to species in mixed colonies.

note 3 : birds are ringed by a large team, coordinated by Grzegorz Neubauer, Ornithological Station, Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Nadwislańska 108, 80-680 Gdansk, Poland.

note 4 :

website sighting submit:

Ornithological Station, Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

colour-ring type:

Legring : one, coded.

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

Yellow [Y]

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

Four alpha code (4 letters).

countries where ringed:

Poland and Russia and Ukraine.

Images:

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