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Lee C

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Hi

Following on from my recent posting of a metal ringed Ringed Plover I wanted to broaden the topic in general.

Metal ring reads are not easy. I have lots of experience and familiar with British rings and to some extent Dutch, Belgian & French.

But what I thought would be useful for me & guess for many others with a similar passion would be to amass a collection of pictures, preferably from every ringing scheme in Europe. Larger non passerine rings would be the ideal preference and would prove an invaluable catalogue. Maybe such a website exists? If there is would love to know about it.

British rings have the unique code at the bottom of the ring, many countries likewise, but other schemes have the unique code at the top of the ring and therefore having a full collection of ring styles from every country in Europe would prove an invaluable help for me.

I eagerly look forward to many postings from either ringers or others with good quality images of known rings.

Lee
 
Lee,

There is indeed such a website at GBPW Kuling:
Go to http://www.kuling.org.pl/ring2/index.html and click on the link
Metalowej obrączki

One or two ringing schemes put pics of their rings on their web pages and
I wish more would do so. It is really helpful to be able to compare digital
images of a ring seen in the field with the precise layout of an example of
a ring from that scheme and ring size. Especially as designs, layout and
addresses in use change regularly.

The Ringed Plover ring you saw with the serial above the address was
probably made by Mekaniska who supply many European schemes, but
I'm afraid that doesn't help you much.

With best regards (and thanks for those rings of mine that you have read
over the years),

Phil
 
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