Red-breasted Goose

Dark-green ring with a white four alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : letter A followed by three numbers.

note 2 :

White ring with a black two alpha-numeric code, separated by /

note 1 : is a feral bird.

note 2 :

Black ring with a white three alpha code.

note 1 : this project concerns 200 birds ringed at the Taymyr Delta, Pura River during 1996 by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the International Artic Expedition IEE (Russian Academy of Science).

Yellow ring with a black three alpha code. 

note 1 : this project concerns 200 birds ringed at the Taymyr Delta, Pura River during 1996 by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the International Artic Expedition IEE (Russian Academy of Science).

White ring with a black three alpha-numeric code (on right tarsus) and metal ring (on left tarsus).

note 1 : birds ringed during summer 2007 at the Agapa River, Taimyr Peninsula, Russia.

Yellow ring with a black code (on one leg) and (Russian) metal ring (on other leg).

note 1 : birds are caught with Brent Goose.

note 2 :

Yellow ring with a black 2 alphacode (on left tarsus) and metal ring (on right tarsus). 

note 1 : white ring with black 2 alpha-code will be used when yellow codes are used. 

note 2 : the colour ringing scheme is part of the field work of BSPB EU Life+ project “Conservation of the Wintering Population of the Globally Threatened Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis) in Bulgaria”. The colour ringing is combined with satellite and GPS logger tagging of Red-breasted Geese to study the interaction and linkages between roosting sites and foraging grounds of the species at its wintering grounds in Bulgaria and gather addition data along the migration route via satellite tags. Data are to be used to fit into development of agro-environmental schemes for crop rotations in the area, compensations schemes, updating of the National Species Action Plan and site management measures.

note 3 : rings with the yellow colour and black letters are rings remaining from John Quinn's ringing activities in Timir, Russia. 10 rings are remaining and the new rings to be fitted two letters combination are white with black letters.