White Stork

Black octagonal (ELSA) ring with white 5 alpha-numeric code, letter H and 4 other characters.

note 1 : used at Hiddensee Bird Ringing Centre until 2010

note 2 : Produced ring numbers: H1001 – H9999, HC001 – HC999, HE001 – HE999, HH001 – HH999, HK001 – HK999, HL001 – HL252

note 3 : Reserved ring numbers: until HL999, HM, HN, HP, HR, HS, HT, HU, HV, HW, HZ, Z0001 – Z9999

note 3 : Code DEH on ring indicates this is the Hildensee scheme in Germany.

Black octagonal (ELSA) ring with white 5 alpha-numeric code, letter C and 4 numbers.

note 1 : Code CYC also on ring is EURING code for Cyprus.

note 2 : Produced ring numbers: Y0001 - Y0200.

Black octagonal (ELSA) ring with white 5 alpha-numeric code, letter B and 4 numbers.

note 1 : code BGS also on ring is EURING code for Bulgaria.

note 2 : Produced ring numbers: B0001 - B0500,  B0501 - B9999 reserved for future use.

Black octagonal (ELSA) ring with a white five numeric code.

note 1 : produced ring numbers 70000 - 70499.

note 2 : Code ROB also on ring is the EURING code for Romania.

Black octagonal (ELSA) ring with white 5 numeric code.

note 1 : code GRA also on ring is Euring code for Greece.

note 2 : Ring numbers 51001 to 51300 ...  most recent rings : GRA 56500.

note 3 : 

Black octagonal (ELSA) ring with a white 4 numeric code, inscription with 3 uncoded rings on other leg OR (from code 2287 and up)  they are also marked with an extra uncoded black ring above the ELSA.

note 1 : ring numbers 1100 to 2655 used so far, further numbers reserved for future use.

note 2 : uncoded coloured rings encode the number on the ELSA, as follows

white = 0
yellow = 1
black = 2
red = 3
pale blue = 4
pink = 5
dark green = 6
orange = 7
dark blue = 8
pale green = 9

note 3 : ELSA rings only in use since 2008.

note 4 : code SVS is also on ring is Euring code for Sweden

note 5 :

Blue ring with white three alpha-numeric white code “+xx”, “x+x” or “xx+” (where x = letter or number that varies) (ring on tibia).

note 1 : part of several schemes in Portugal with 2500 birds ringed since 1994.

note 2 : occasionally rings are positioned upside down, as in the image of the whole bird below.

note 3 : recently rings have been placed on both legs / tibia.

note 4 : the "+" is part of the three alpha-numeric code.

note 5 :

Yellow ring with code (black number 3).

note 1 :

Green ring with a white three alpha code (on tibia).

note 1 :

Black (ELSA) octagonal ring with a white five alpha-numeric (HXnnn, HYnnn, 1Hnnn).

note 1 : 2810 birds ringed since 2004.