Grey Heron

Yellow ring with a black three alpha-numeric code.

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Red ring with a white two alpha-numeric code (on tibia) and metal ring (on other leg).

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Orange ring with a black three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : starting letter "C" followed by a number and a letter.

note 2 : similar rings and codes are used in Spain, Italy and Belgium.

note 3 : for the future orange ring with a black code (letter / digit / letter ) could be used (in agreement with the other projects, through European colour-ring Birding).

note 4 : this projects runs since 2005.

note 5 : codes to be read from top to bottom.

Red ring with a three alpha-numeric code (starting letter "A" and 2 numerics).

note 1 : similar rings and codes are used in Spain, Italy and Belgium.

note 2 : for the future orange ring with a black code (letter / digit / letter ) could be used (in agreement with the other projects, through European colour-ring Birding).

note 3 : this projects runs since 2005.

note 4 : codes to be read from top to bottom.

Red ring with a white three alpha-numeric code (1 letter and 2 numbers).

note 1 : similar rings and codes are used in Spain, Italy and Belgium.

note 2 : for the future orange ring with a black code (letter / digit / letter ) could be used (in agreement with the other projects, through European colour-ring Birding).

note 3 : this projects runs since 2005 and codes from A86-A00 are used during 2014 in Prague.

note 4 : codes to be read from top to bottom.

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Yellow ring with a black four alpha-numeric code (on right leg).

note 1 : starting letter "X" followed by three letters.

note 2 : note that no metal ring was used.

Orange ring with a black three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : starting letter "A" followed by two letters.

note 2 : birds ringed in Cork, Ireland.

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White ring with a black 4 alpha-numeric code (on tibia), starting letter 'X'.

note 1 : Dr. Andreas Goedecke is the project leader of the Grey Heron colour-marking project in Germany and since winter 2016 also The Netherlands.

note 2 : numbers of ringed birds (mostly juv.): 2003: 144, 2004: 500, 2005: 746, 2006: 344, 2007: 332, 2008: 354, 2009: 243, 2010: 211, 2011: 135, 2012: 92, 2013: 138, 2014: 218, 2015: 179, 

note 3 : white rings with 4 alpha-numeric code are used since 2010 : first letter X followed by 3 numbers or „X“/letter/number/number.

note 4 : white rings with the code X161-X190 and XA00-XA99 (on left tibia) and metal ring (on right tibia) are birds ringed by Jan Biemans in the south-east of Brabant and central-Limburg, The Netherlands”. 

note 5 : very interesting readings were in Spain and Sierra Leone (>5400km. from the ringing place).

note 6 : 20 rings were used 2017 in Egypt (Lake Nasser).

note 7 : the last years between 70 and 200 herons per year were ringed in Germany.

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Green rings with a white 3 alpha code, starting with letter 'X' (on tibia).

note 1 : Dr. Andreas Goedecke is the project leader of the Grey Heron colour-marking project in Germany.

note 2 : numbers of ringed birds (mostly juv.): 2003: 144, 2004: 500, 2005: 746, 2006: 344, 2007: 332, 2008: 354, 2009: 243, 2010: 211

note 3 : green rings : code always starting with X

note 4 : white rings : codes start with R, T, V, X, Z.

note 5 : white rings with 4 characters used since 2010 : letter X followed by 3 numbers.

note 6 : very interesting readings were in Spain and Sierra Leone (>5400km. from the ringing place).

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