Caspian Gull

Yellow ring with a black 4 alpha code, starting letter 'V'.

note 1 : rings could be used on L. fuscus.

note 2 :

Blue ring with a white 4 alpha-numeric code (starting letter 'V' and a 'dot' after the first letter).

note 1 : used codes are : V.000 - V.ZZZ

note 2 : only a few of those codes are used for this species.

note 3 :

Yellow ring with a black 4 alpha-numeric code, starting letter 'V'.

note 1 : used code are V000-VZZZ.

note 2 : rings could be used on L. fuscus !

note 3 :

White wingtag with a black three alpha-numeric code, starting letter "E".

note 1 :

Red ring with a white four alpha-numeric code : starting letter 'K' followed by three numbers.

note 1 : used codes are :
K701-800 (1999)
K801-900 (2000)
K901-000 (2001-2002)
KA01-00 (2001-2003 )
KH01-00 (2003-2004)
KE01-00 (2003-2006)
KN01-KN00 (2006-2008)
KYxx, where “x” is number or letter (since 2020)

note 2 : birds were ringed mainly by Nikolai Yakovets up to 2008.

note 3 : rings could be used on L. cachinnans, L. argentatus, L. fuscus , L. michahellis and hybrids between these four species.

note 4 : both adults and chicks are ringing in breeding colonies.

note 5 : there are quite many hybrids, not always possible to identify in the field, so please take a digit photo if possible.

note 6 :

Blue ring with a white four alpha-numeric code : letter 'V' followed by three numbers.

note 1 :  

Black ring with a white three alpha code.

note 1 :

Orange ring wich a black four alpha-numeric code : starting letter 'R' followed by a colon ":" and three numbers.

note 1 :

Orange ring with a four alpha-numeric code, starting letter 'N'.

note 1 :

Dark-green ring with a white four alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : used codes are :
- number /letter 'P' /number /number. 
- number / number / letter 'P' / number.
- number / number / number / letter 'P'.

note 2 :