Waterbird Colour-marking Group

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Waterbird Colour-marking Group

@WaterbirdCM

Our network of volunteer bird ringers focus on waterbird species

Katılım Eylül 2022
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Scott Staffs Wildlife
Scott Staffs Wildlife@ScottStaffs·
Popped over to Elford to see the 60 Russian White-Fronted Geese. Nothing doing when I got there, but fortunately they flew in after an hour. Also 4 Whooper Swans. One of which had a white ring on it's left leg. The number looked like 22L @WestMidBirdClub @RingersWm
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Stephen Vickers
Stephen Vickers@Stephen8Vickers·
The Whoopers are starting to move and will soon be back on their Icelandic breeding grounds! Since @WaterbirdCM started ringing Whoopers in 2023, we've tagged >600 inds. and gathered >750 sightings. Please keep an eye out and continue to report any sightings to us as they leave!
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Waterbird Colour-marking Group@WaterbirdCM·
Since 2023 we've caught & colour-marked nearly 600 Whooper Swans & we need your help to find them! 🧐 Please check any flocks you may see & let us know what you find...
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Waterbird Colour-marking Group@WaterbirdCM·
Another successful expedition to #Iceland comes to an end! Over 200 Whooper Swans caught & colour-marked for ongoing studies & many GPS tags deployed. Thank you to Sverrir Thorstensen, Ketill Þor & the many farmers who have hosted & helped us 💫
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Kane Brides
Kane Brides@KaneBrides·
Another day on board the zodiac with our special passengers! All caught for @WaterbirdCM colour-ringing 💫
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Waterbird Colour-marking Group@WaterbirdCM·
We're spending today at the stove as we make up & mould darvic rings ahead of our Whooper Swan expedition to #Iceland next week!
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The team has been on the road visiting North Yorkshire, Cumbria & Perth & Kinross for Barnacle goose ringing. In total, 415 geese were rounded up & colour-marked as part of work to better understand the movements & survival of the UK's naturalised Barnacle goose population.
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Kane Brides
Kane Brides@KaneBrides·
400 flat engraved darvics for our @WaterbirdCM Whooper Swan expedition up to #Iceland 🇮🇸 in a few weeks. I just need a few days in front of the stove to make them up 🔥
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Waterbird Colour-marking Group@WaterbirdCM·
What do you call a North Yorkshire breeding Barnacle Goose in Italy?..... Lost! Very lost! 🇮🇹
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Waterbird Colour-marking Group@WaterbirdCM·
@ornitho_pie Many thanks for letting us know! We had not heard of this sighting. A month later it was in Northern Italy! Sure is getting around :)
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Pietro D'Amelio
Pietro D'Amelio@ornitho_pie·
@WaterbirdCM Hopefully you received this sighting from South of Italy (if it belongs to your project)
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Waterbird Colour-marking Group@WaterbirdCM·
When we started our colour-marking study of the UK's naturalised Barnacle Goose population, we didn't think they would roam as much as they have! Watch till the end...
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Kane Brides
Kane Brides@KaneBrides·
We're interested in knowing of any decent sized moulting flocks of Mandarin. Please keep an eye out and let @WJSmith97 / me know know...
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Kane Brides
Kane Brides@KaneBrides·
Round yer mates up... for a paddle on the water then catch 600 geese! Nicely topping up our marked population. Pretty cool weekend! Though feeling it now... #BirdRinging
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Waterbird Colour-marking Group@WaterbirdCM·
Today, we took a batch of darvic to the engravers to start making up this years Whooper Swan rings. Another 500 being made for deployment in #Iceland this summer 😊
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Waterbird Colour-marking Group@WaterbirdCM·
Looking smart in the sunshine is Black-headed Gull 2T74, photographed by @robertwikstrand in Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴 a few days ago (also seen there in 2022 and 2023). The bird winters, and was ringed in Cumbria, UK 🇬🇧
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Kane Brides
Kane Brides@KaneBrides·
Our wandering Barnacle Geese (originally ringed in North Yorkshire) are touring Germany! First seen close to the Austrian border in January, they are now in Lower Saxony. Heading home? 🤗
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It appears quite a number of the Scorton (North Yorkshire) / @RSPBSaltholme Barnacle Goose flock have left for southern Germany! 70 have been sighted very close to the Liechtenstein / Austrian border! That's 1,086km from their ringing location!

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