This blog contains news on the colour-ringing of Little Egrets in Britain and Ireland. Since 2002, more than 500 have been marked by a team of bird ringers, mostly at breeding colonies, generating lots of information on movements and survival rates.

Birds are fitted with an engraved colour ring on each tibia, with a single vertical letter or number repeated three times around the ring (see above image by Ian Butler www.ianbutlerphotography.co.uk). If you see a bird like this please record the date and location, along with the ring combination, and send it to me at littleegrets@yahoo.co.uk.

Further information about bird ringing can be found at www.bto.org

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Just getting started...

This blog will shortly contain information on the colour-marking of Little Egrets in Britain and Ireland.

Birds are ringed mostly as nestlings at sites throughout the current breeding range, and this is leading to much new knowledge about the movements of this species.

If you see a colour-marked bird from this project, please report the details to littleegrets@yahoo.co.uk

Further information on colour-marking projects can be found at http://www.cr-birding.be/
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