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
Saturday, 20 August 2011
oUy6 still at Gib Point
Orange U yellow 6 is still at Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire, seen most recently by Malcolm Johnson on 15th August, some three years after being ringed on the other side of the Wash near Terrington.
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