Ringing Gyps fulvus on Crete

[ColD]

Has anyone got the technology to decipher the number on this birds band please,I have not got a decent programme to sharpen etc. As you can see the band is just a little twisted the wrong way, I was thinking 039 or 639
Thanks for any help.
ColD

[John Morgan]

Just not enough pixels, I fear. Oh for the days of 'wet' photography :)

[Mícheál]

Has anyone got the technology to decipher the number on this birds band please,I have not got a decent programme to sharpen etc. As you can see the band is just a little twisted the wrong way, I was thinking 039 or 639
Thanks for any help.
ColD


Very frustrating.

Can't help - actually thought it was 098 or 860. Can I ask is this a crop from the unedited camera image? If not could you post one?

Thanks - hate to admit defeat!

Mícheál

[ColD]

Thanks for trying John and Micheal, yes the image is unedited , just cropped. I have done a bit of research and it seems the first digit may be a letter, unless of course the bird is migrating through.

http://home.scarlet.be/~pin02658/cr-EurGriffonVult.htm

I have emailed the Crete Nat Hist Museum, I will let you know if there is anything when I hear.
Cheers ColD
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[ColD]

Great news from the Natural History museum of Crete:t:. Thanks to the
co-ordinator for the information. The number is G39, the bird was a juvenile first year bird when found exhausted in Kourtaliotiko gorge, Crete on 15/8/2003 it was rehabilitated and released on 30/3/2004. This is therefore 6 years old.
Cheers
ColD
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