Mediterranean Gull

Red ring with a white 4 alpha-numeric code : letter 'P'/letter/letter/number.

note 1 : before 2004 the following codes were used P00-P99 and 0P0-9P9.
note 2 : the following letters are used : A, E, H, J, K, L, N, P, R, T, U, Y.
note 3 : birds with atypical codes are  red: T121, T081, T078, T133. Theses codes are from  the Polish Larus canus project.
note 4 : a few hybrids (adults and chicks) L. melanocephalus x L. ridibundus have been also ringed.
note 5 : for the Polish ringers, Monika Zielinska (monzieli@wp.pl) stays the contact.

In August 2012 the new program for Polish Ringing Centre - POLRING started to work.  Since then, the best way to report all  observations of birds ringed or recovered in Poland is to fill in the on-line recovery form under http://ring.stornit.gda.pl/

It is not necessary to register in the system to report a single observation, but it is much more convenient to do it if you are a regular observer. The registered users not only receive the ringing data and full life histories but also have an access to all photographs and all future reports of the birds they have seen at least once.

If the ringing data is already in the system, you should get the response within 24 hours. If not, the request for the ringing details is sent to the ringer automatically by the system. You can check the status of your report in RECORDS/MY REPORTS.

In case of any difficulties or problems with the system, please write to ptaki@miiz.waw.pl

Red ring with a white 4 alpha-numeric code, starting letter 'T'.

note 1 : only four birds are ringed with this Eurasian Mew Gull codes.
note 2 : birds with this  ‘a-typical’ code are  T121, T081, T078, T1333.

White ring with black 4 alpha-numeric code, starting letter "E". 

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Red ring with a four alpha-numeric code, starting letter "Z".

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Yellow ring with a black four alpha-numeric code, first letter 2X (on  right  tarsus) and metal ring (on left tarsus).

note 1 : birds ringed at Sandycove, Dublin, Ireland.

note 2 : used codes are 2X/letter/letter (used letters A, E, H, J, K, L, N, P, R, T, V, X) and 2X/number/letter (used letters A, E, H, J, K, L, N, P, R, T, V, X)

Red ring with a white 4 alpha-numeric code (starting letter 'Y' and letter/letter/number).

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Green ring with a white 3 alpha-numeric code (letter/number/letter).

note 1 : from 1999 till 2005 in Germany Med. Gulls were ringed at 5 places with a code (letter/number/letter) starting with A1A (in the Upper Rhine Valley) and M1A (near the river Elbe).

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Dark-blue ring with a white 4 numeric code.

note 1 : used codes are : 5000 to 5018.
note 2 : birds were ringed during winter 2006 at Cambrils, Spain.

Dark-blue ring with 4 alpha-numeric code, starting number "0" and with or without a ‘dot’.

note 1 : since 2006 : 0AAA to 0ZZZ (only on the first 400 rings the zero has a dot in the middle : bad idea, everybody read it as 'B', so  -from 0CAA on- the zero is a real zero.

note 2 : for marking scheme info. , please refer to : stefano.volponi@isprambiente.it

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Black ring with white code : starting letter 'U' (horizontal) and 3 numbers (vertical)).
Black ring with white code (starting letter 'U'/letter/number/number).
Black ring with white code (number/letter/number OR number/number/letter OR letter/number/letter).

note 1 : rings have been used in '94 and from '97 onwards (except '01).
note 2 : in 1994 296 rings have been used in Ukraine (in collaboration with Antonina Rudenko).
note 3 : from 1997 on, black rings have been used in Greece (in collaboration with Vassilis Goutner) and Turkey (in collaboration Suhendan Karauz).
note 4 : from 1998 onwards, black rings have been used in Ukraine (in collaboration with Antonina Rudenko (Black Sea Biosphere Reserve), Valery Siokhin and Alexander Matsyura (Sivash).
note 5 : due to bad meteorological conditions, all Med. Gull colonies of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve have been destroyed; hence no colour-ringing has been performed in 2001 in Ukraine. Other reasons prevented Med. Gulls from being colour-ringed in Turkey and Greece in 2001. New colour-ringing activities are planned in these countries in 2004.
note 6 : during summer 2006 in Greece 140 birds have been ringed by Vassilis Goutner ; code is 2 letters and 2 numbers.
note 7 : during summer 2008 in Greece 57 young birds were ringed by Vassilis Goutner ; code is a country-code “4” followed by three numbers.

note 1 : following codes are reserved : 
black rings with the code “U-cipher -letter-cipher” using the following letters :  J, K, L, N, P, R, T, V, X.
Black rings with the code “T-cipher-cipher-cipher” starting with T701.
Black rings with the code “4-cipher-cipher-cipher” starting with 4601.
Black rings with the code “K-cipher-cipher-letter” using the following letters : E, H, J, K, L, N, P, R, T, V, X.
Black rings with the code “7-cipher-cipher-cipher” starting with 7101.