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Tracing a colour ring (1 Viewer)

rmielcarek

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I realise this may be the wrong forum but does anyone know of any way to trace colour rings on what are, in all probability, escaped birds?

To give you the background, 2 adult Red-breasted Geese turned up at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset on Friday and are still present today. Both birds have narrow blue plastic rings but no metal ring. The rings have a string of white numbers and letters, but these are not engraved like on a normal darvic, more like they have been stamped on the surface and are starting to wear off in places.

Both rings have almost identical numbering, suggesting both birds have escaped from the same place.

Most of the charecters go round the ring, although a couple are at right angles to the ring; this couple is AO and is repeated twice.

The rest of the characters are NL12 (AO) 6779 (AO) on one and NL25 (AO) 6779 (AO) on the other.

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can trace the source of these birds?

Rich M
 
Someone in aviculture at WWT will probably have an answer, and who knows could even be thanking you for finding their birds, if you give Slimbridge HQ a call.
 
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