Sandwich Tern

Blue ring with a white 3 alpha code (starting letter 'I').

note 1 : used letters are A,B,C,D,F,H,J,K,L,N,P,S,T,V,Z.

note 2 : only adult birds are ringed near the Saline di Comacchio, Po-delta by Adriano Talamelli.

note 3 : for marking scheme info. , please refer to : stefano.volponi@isprambiente.it

note 4 :

Green ring with a white 3 alpha code, starting letter 'I'.

note 1 : used letters are A,B,C,D,F,H,J,K,L,N,P,S,T,V,Z.

note 2 : only adult birds are ringed near the Saline di Comacchio, Po-delta by Adriano Talamelli.

note 3 : for marking scheme info. , please refer to : stefano.volponi@isprambiente.it

note 4 :

Red ring with a white 3 alpha code (starting letter 'I').

note 1 : used letters are A,B,C,D,F,H,J,K,L,N,P,S,T,V,Z.

note 2 : only adult birds are ringed near the Saline di Comacchio, Po-delta by Adriano Talamelli.

note 3 : for marking scheme info. , please refer to : stefano.volponi@isprambiente.it

note 4 :

Yellow ring with a white 3 alpha code (starting letter 'I').

note 1 : used letters are A,B,C,D,F,H,J,K,L,N,P,S,T,V,Z.

note 2 : only adult birds are ringed near the Saline di Comacchio, Po-delta by Adriano Talamelli.

note 3 : for marking scheme info. , please refer to : stefano.volponi@isprambiente.it

note 4 :

Blue ring with a two alpha code.

note 1 : used letters are A,B,C,D,F,H,J,K,L,N,P,S,T,V,Z.

note 2 : only adult birds are ringed near the Saline di Comacchio, Po-delta by Adriano Talamelli.
note 3 : birds ringed during 2006.

note 4 : for marking scheme info. , please refer to : stefano.volponi@isprambiente.it

note 5 :

Green ring with a two alpha code.

note 1 : used letters are A, B, C, D, F, H, J, K, L, N, P, S, T, V, Z.

note 2 : only adult birds are ringed near the Saline di Comacchio, Po-delta by Adriano Talamelli.

note 3 : birds ringed during 2005.

note 4 : birds are already seen at Mile 4 Salt Works, Namibia (courtesy Mark Boorman & Sandra Dantu).

note 5 : for marking scheme info. , please refer to : stefano.volponi@isprambiente.it

note 6 :

Red ring with a two alpha code.

note 1 : used letters are A,B,C,D,F,H,J,K,L,N,P,S,T,V,Z.

note 2 : only adult birds are ringed near the Saline di Comacchio, Po-delta by Adriano Talamelli.

note 3 : birds ringed during 2004.

note 4 : for marking scheme info. , please refer to : stefano.volponi@isprambiente.it

note 5 :

Yellow ring with a two alpha code.

note 1 : used letters are A,B,C,D,F,H,J,K,L,N,P,S,T,V,Z.

note 2 : only adult birds are ringed near the Saline di Comacchio, Po-delta by Adriano Talamelli.

note 3 : birds ringed during 2003.

note 4 : for marking scheme info. , please refer to : stefano.volponi@isprambiente.it

note 5 :

Black ring with a white two alpha code. (AA till ZZ).

note 1 : on the 22nd. of June 2005 200 chicks have been ringed in the El Fangar Reserve.

Dark-blue ring with a white 3 alpha-numeric code and metal ring.

note 1 : Always letter 'N' on first position; followed by one letter and one numeric (e.g. NV2 or N2V); or one numeric and one numeric (e.g. N12); or one letter and one letter (e.g. NVT)

note 2 : Always letter ‘H’ on first position; followed by one letter and one numeric (e.g. HV2 or H2V); or one numeric and one numeric (e.g. H12); or one letter and one letter (e.g. HVT)

note 3 : Always letter ‘J' on first position, followed by one numeric and one numeric (e.g. J12); or one letter and one numeric and a ‘.' [dot] in the code in a random position (either between first and second digit, or between second and third) (e.g. J.2T or J2.V)

note 4 : a joint project of the Research Institute for Nature and Forest/INBO, Bureau Waardenburg and Ringgroup Delta. This project started in 2010 and each year (except in 2011) both adults and juveniles have been colourringed.

note 5 : we use colour-rings in order to gain information on migration, habitat use, juvenile dispersal, age of return and recruitment to the breeding colonies in the southwest of The Netherlands or beyond.

note 6 : used letters are : A, C, F, H, K, L, N, P, R, S, T, V, X, Z.

note 7 :