Common Crane

White ring with a black four numeric code (on left tibia) and metal ring (on right tarsus).

note 1 : two injured birds were after revalidation ringed.

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Combination of :
* a coded flag (with a two alpha / two alpha-numeric / two numeric code)
* a coded ring (with a four alpha code)

note 1 : code on flag and o nring differs.

note 2 : see picture.

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Yellow ring with a black four alpha-numeric code, starting letter "F" : 
Fxxq and Fqxx, where x is either letter or number and q is a letter (for checking) (on left tibia and metal ring (on right tarsus).

note 1 :

Dark-blue ring with a white three alpha-numeric code, letter/number/number.

note 1 :  one bird (G15) was banded in Torey Lake in 1992.

note 2 : additional information :
http://www.eaaflyway.net/migratory-waterbirds-in-eaaf/coordination-of-co...

note 3 :

Red ring with a white three alpha-numeric code, letter/number/number.

note 1 :  Daurskiy in 1989-1990 ; K01, K04, and S** were used near Torey Lake

note 2 : additional information :
http://www.eaaflyway.net/migratory-waterbirds-in-eaaf/coordination-of-co...

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White ring with a black three alpha-numeric code, starting letter 'E' followed by two numbers.

note 1 :  E** were used Daurskiy (Torey Lake and adjacent areas) in 1990.

note 2 : additional information :
http://www.eaaflyway.net/migratory-waterbirds-in-eaaf/coordination-of-co...

note 3 :

Combination of a c-ring over two numeric ring (on left leg) and 3 c-rings (on right leg).

note 1 :

White ring with a black three alpha-numeric code : letter/number/number.

note 1 :  

Combination of uncoded legrings.

note 1: birds ringed in Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, France and Hungary can be reported directly by observers online at the website www.icora.de. Here observers have immediate access to life history reports of their birds. Birds from other projects can be reported at www.icora.de as well, but sightings will be automatically forwarded to those projects.

note 2 : see also http://www.icora.de/index.php?page=codes for more detailed information and contacts of each project (see also attachment). The iCORA website was updated with a new version in September 2016 and now contains a new photo gallery, a news section and many improvements both for ringreaders and ringing projects.

note 3 : since 2014 the combination "green-black-green" is used by the Israeli Bird Ringing Center : ibrc@inter.net.il

note 4 : since 2016 brown as a new colour was introduced in Germany, but is only used as part of the new German country code blue-brown-blue so far.

note 5 : use colours are : white, yellow, red, blue, green, black and since 2016 also brown.

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