Common Kestrel

Black ring with a white three alpha code, starting letter X.

note 1 : birds ringed in the North-Vienna area, from September 2012 till March 2013.
note 2 : used codes are XRA-XRZ.

White ring with a black 2 alpha-numeric code (on left leg) and metal ring (on right leg).

note 1 : birds ringed in the UK, county Shropshire.

Yellow ring with a black three alpha-numeric code (letter/number/number) (on left leg) and metal ring (on right leg).

note 1 : birds ringed in the UK, county Pembrokeshire.

note 2 : 

Red ring with a white four alpha-numeric code (letter "H" and 3 letters/numbers).

note 1 :

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

note 1 : used letters are : A, E, G, J, K, L, N, R, M, T, U, V, Y, W, Z.

note 2 : used combinations are : letter-number-number ; letter-letter-number ; number-letter-letter ; number-letter-number; number-number-letter, letter-number-letter

note 3 : more then 4000 birds already ringed.

note 4 : 
last code   used in 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
A                          26       42    21       0      3
C                          26       42    21       1      3
E                          26       42    21       1      3
G                          26       43    21       1      3
J                           26       43    22       1      3
K                          25       43    22       0       4
L                          25       43    22       0       4
M                         25       42    21       1       4
P                          25       42    21       1       4
T                          25       40    21       1       4  
U                          25       40    21       1      4
V                          25       38    20       2      3
Y                          25       38    20       2      2

Wingtag (on both wings) with a 2 alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : used colours are red, white or yellow.

note 2 : the tag has been attached between the secondaries and tertials or between the first-third secondaries.

note 3 : birds were tagged at the autumn migration '98 in southern (Chokpak Pass, foothills of the Anarchay mountain) or eastern (Sugaty valley, Zaisan-hollow) of Kazachstan.

note 4 : 1 bird has been tagged.

White ring with a black three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : also a project with white (and black) ring and a two alpha-numeric coes exisist.

Combination of c-rings.

note 1 : the project started in 1977 till 1981, so probably no birds alive anymore.

note 2 : used colours are white, red, green and others.

Blue ring (on left leg) and metal ring (on right leg).

note 1 : birds ringed in the area West of Danube, Hungary.

Combination of c-rings (max. 2/ tarsus).

note 1 : used colours are : black, red, white, orange, dark-green, dark-blue and the metal ring. Each tarsus get max. 2 rings, so each bird could have up to 4 rings.

note 2 : project runs in Hortobágy/East Hungary and some 40 birds/year will be ringed with the aim to study the social structure and hierarchy within colonies of Red-footed falcon and Common Kestrel.

note 3 :