Gulls
species:
Black-headed Gull
scientific name:
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
notes:
White ring with black four alpha-numeric code (starting letter "A") and metal ring (on other leg).
note 1 : used combinations 2012 till 2017 are : letter/number/number/number OR letter/letter/number/number OR letter/letter/letter/number OR letter/number/letter/letter OR letter/letter/number/letter ... as ex. A001, AC88, AAA4, AA5N, A3NV at Hamburg and Schleswig- Holstein / Germany.
note 2 : 2016 and following years, codes with 5 characters like AF004, AX567 and AD770 are used.
note 3 : rings are to be read from bottom to top.
note 4 : codes like AT000 – AT999 will be used 2017 and following years at Austria.
note 5 :
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):
A