Montagu's Harrier

Wingtag with a two alpha-numeric and metal ring.

note 1 : Wingtags can be black, blue, white, green, red or fuchsia with either 2 numbers or a letter and a number.

note 2 : the project with the metal rings runs since 1999 (starting with 1 pair and now 69 pairs in Northwest Bavaria, Germany) and since the summer 2001 birds are wingtagged for the time being only with a yellow wingtag.

note 3 : yellow tags have been used for birds in 2001 and 2002. For 2003 and 2004 light-blue tags with black numbers (right wing only) are used ; green tags were used in 2006.

note 4 : during 2005 red tags (on right wing) with white numbers or with white number and letter are used.

note 5 : by mid-July some 500 birds have been tagged and recoveries are from Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria and Morocco.

Combination of max. three c-rings and one metal ring.

note 1 : the project is performed with a small breeding population in the federal state of Brandenburg.

note 2 : about 20 nestlings are expected to be marked annually.

note 3 : the project started in 2003.

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Orange ring with a black code.

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Black ring with white two alpha-numeric code (on one leg) and metal ring (on the other leg).

note 1 : Birds were ringed in Belarus between 2007 and 2009.

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Blue ring with white two alpha-numeric code (on one leg) and metal ring (on the other leg).

note 1 : Birds were ringed in Denmark since 2005.

note 2 : To read the ring, turn your head 90 degree to the left.

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Yellow ring with black two alpha-numeric code (on one leg) and metal ring (on the other leg).

note 1 : Birds were ringed in the Netherlands since 1999.

note 2 : Two alpha-numeric coded yellow colour rings were used from 1999 to 2013 ; from 2014 onwards the two letters/numbers of the code are separated by a black line (e.g. A|A).

note 3 : codes V|2, V|3, V|4 and V|5 are also used and to be read from bottom till top, but some rings could be upside-down.

note 4 : some new birds are ringed in Belgium, july 2020.

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Orange ring with a black three alpha-numeric code (letter/number/number).

note 1: in use since 2010.

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Orange ring with a black two alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : birds are ringed from 2005-2010 (3 alphanumerics since then) in several areas of Poland, mostly NE Poland.

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Coloured wing-tags on each wing with black or white symbols.

note 1 : note 1 : this program aims at measuring both qualitatively and quantitatively Montagu’s harrier dispersal. Birds were banded as chicks over the whole species distribution in France between 2007 and 2010 (as well as in some areas in Germany, Netherlands and Spain) using a patagial wing-tag on each wing.

note 2 : one black or white symbol (or no symbol) per wing-tag, different on each wing.

note 3 : background colours for wing-tags are blue, fuchsia, yellow, orange, lime-green, red and white.

note 4 : three informations are essential: symbol, colours of the symbol and background colour and this for each wing.

note 5 : https://busards.com/index.php/Form/obs/CIRPYG_1

note 6 : between 2007 and 2010 some 5500 birds were marked in France.

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Light green wing tags (same on both wings) with a black two alpha-numeric code and metal ring on one leg.

note 1 : the birds are youngsters released by hacking in the province of Guadalajara (Spain).

note 2 : project started in 2008.

note 3 : codes recomended by Antonio Pinilla who is coordinating harriers marking in Spain.