Purple Sandpiper

Combination of :
* orange ring (as marker) (on left tibia).
* lightgreen (lime) flag with a black three alpha code (on right tibia).
* metal ring (on left tarsus).

note 1 : birds ringed since 2010.

note 2 : used letters are : A, C, E, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, T, U, V, X, Y, Z.

note 3 : birds ringed on Spitsbergen / Svalbard.

note 4 :

Yellow ring with a black three alpha code (on one leg) and metalr ring (on other leg).

note 1 : 

Combination of :
* dark-pink flag with a black three alpha-code (on left tarsus)
* 1 c-ring (on right tibia). 

note 1 : right tarsus : metal ring ; left TIBIA : dark-pink coded flag with three black letters ; right tibia : marker colour ring, could be orange or dark pink or green.

note 2 : used codes consist of three letters, ten different letters used.

note 3 : birds are ringed either on their breeding grounds in Kilpisjärvi in Finnish Lapland (dark pink marker ring) or on migration stop-over/wintering site in Jurmo Bird Observatory in the archipelago in south-western Finland (orange marker ring).

note 4 : http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=218126239832198286264.0...

Combination of a blue flag with a white two alpha-numeric code (on left tibia) and a green ring (on right tibia) and metal ring (on left tarsus).

note 1 : used letters / numbers are A, C, E, H, J, K, L, M, N, P and 0-9.

note 2 : project started in autumn 2014.

Combination of a black flag with a white three alpha-numeric code (on left tibia) and a violet ring (on right tibia) and metal ring (on right tarsus)

note 1 : used letters / numbers are A, C, E, H, J, L, M, N, P, S, T, U, V, X, Z and 3,6,9.

note 2 : 

Combination of :
* yellow ring with a black three alpha-code (on left tarsus)
* 1 c-ring (on right tibia). 

note 1 : right tarsus : metal ring ; left tarsus : yellow coded ring with three black letters ; right tibia : marker colour ring, could be orange or dark pink.

note 2 : used codes consist of three letters, ten different letters used.

note 3 : birds were ringed either on their breeding grounds in Kilpisjärvi in Finnish Lapland (dark pink marker ring) or on migration stop-over/wintering site in Jurmo Bird Observatory in the archipelago in south-western Finland (orange marker ring).

note 4 : location of the ringing sites on a map :
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=218126239832198286264.0004ad5e542ac5c99e7d6

note 5 : between 2011 and 2014, 200 individuals were ringed.

note 6 :

Red ring (on right leg) and a combination of two rings (on left tarsus).

note 1 :

Combination of c-rings.

note 1 : the highest placed ring is light-green, the rest is white, blue, black or green. This last ring indicates the ringing place.
note 2 : yellow ring (on left leg) and two yellow rings (on right leg).

Combination of five c-rings.

note 1 : details on the ring-combination are : on the right tibia one orange ring ; on the right tarsus one steel ring over one colour-plastic ring ; on the left tarsus two plastic colour-rings.
note 2 : note that always one orange ring is on the right tibia which means that the bird was ringed on Svalbard during the summer.
note 3 : used colours are orange, red, yellow, dark-green, dark-blue, light-blue, black and white.
note 4 : >500 birds have been ringed.

Combination of c-rings.

note 1 : rings on tibia can be difficult to see.
note 2 : combinations of two colours are on each tarsus.
note 3: >350 birds have been colour-ringed in SW-Iceland since March 2001.