Lesser Spotted Eagle

Two coloured ring (black and orange) with a 2-alpha code (on the left leg).

note 1 : the first letter is on the orange part and the second letter on the black part. Reading direction : from botomm till top.

note 2 : metal ring on the right leg.

note 3 : ringing from spring 2022 onwards.

note 4 : some birds are satellite-tagged.

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Two coloured ring (black and orange) with a 2-alpha code (on the left leg).

note 1 : the first letter is on the orange part and the second letter on the black part. Reading direction : from botomm till top.

note 2 : metal ring on the right leg.

note 3 : ringing from spring 2022 onwards.

note 4 : some birds are satellite-tagged.

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one metal bi-colored (black-red) ring (on left leg) and metal ring (on right leg).

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

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Combination of 2 c-rings (on one leg) and metal ring (on other leg).

note 1 : used colours are white, black, green, blue,; orange, yellow and red.

note 2 : hybrids betweeen Lesser and Greater are also ringed.  

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

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Yellow wingtag with a black one numerid code (for adult birds) and red wingtag with white number.

note 1 : yellow and red wingtags are used in the study area Zuklis.  
 

Pale-blue wingtag with a black one numeric code (for adult birds) and white wingtags with black number.

note 1 : sky-blue and white wingtags are used in the study area Murmastiene.

Yellow ring with a black three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : all birds are also marked with a GPS-satellite transmitter.

note 2 : also ‘Abels’ (second hatched chicks) are marked which normally do not survive because of ‘Cainism’ but which are reared in captivity for five weeks and return to their nests just before fledging in order to increase the breeding success. Also a long term program of nesting management is started and within the scope of an even bigger program to stop the decrease of this very threatened bird in Germany.

note 3 : since 2000 ten adult birds are satellite tagged. Nestlings are colour-ringed since 2004 in Germany.

note 4 : in 2005 a nestling (genetically a hybrid) of the only mixed in Germany A. pomarina (male) and A. clanga (female) was colour-ringed and satellite tagged.

note 5 : see also : Raptor Research on http://www.raptor-research.de

Pale-blue ring with a black three alpha-numeric code.

note 1 : since 2008  first 5 LSE chicks have been ringed with light-blue rings.

note 2 : detailed information on LSE colour-ringing in Slovakia you can find in pdf article: Dravecky et al. 2008. Lesser Spotted Eagle (Aquila pomarina) colour ringing programme and its first results in the period 2000-2008 in Slovakia. Slovak Rapt J 2: 27-36. www.dravce.sk

note 3 : detailed information on LSE, GSE colour-ringing in Europe you can find in pdf article:  Dravecky et al. 2008. Colour ringing of the Spotted Eagles (Aquila pomarina, Aquila clanga and their hybrids) in Europe – a review. Slovak Rapt J 2: 37-52. www.dravce.sk

note 4 : some birds are satellite tagged.