New! Male Redpoll in garden with metal ring. (1 Viewer)

KenM · Mar 15, 2012

Have had (normally 8-9) and up to 20+ Redpolls on my feeders since Dec.4. Today's bird is the first that I have seen with a metal ring! I've often suspected interchange from the roost site..perhaps on a daily basis. However I have transcribed (hopefully correctly?) the following digits from the ''new'' bird...NH, London, L7 and 553..believe the last three digits are a follow on from L7? That said..there may well have been other sequential nos. that were not visible. Unsure what the return/control ratio is for cabaret/flammea?

Presumably the BTO..might have an interest in this?

Jon Turner · Mar 16, 2012

KenM said:
Have had (normally 8-9) and up to 20+ Redpolls on my feeders since Dec.4. Today's bird is the first that I have seen with a metal ring! I've often suspected interchange from the roost site..perhaps on a daily basis. However I have transcribed (hopefully correctly?) the following digits from the ''new'' bird...NH, London, L7 and 553..believe the last three digits are a follow on from L7? That said..there may well have been other sequential nos. that were not visible. Unsure what the return/control ratio is for cabaret/flammea?

Presumably the BTO..might have an interest in this?

It's a British ringed Redpoll. The number should have 6 digits after the letter. If you can get them all it would be even better, before you contact the BTO.

KenM · Mar 16, 2012

Jon Turner said:
It's a British ringed Redpoll. The number should have 6 digits after the letter. If you can get them all it would be even better, before you contact the BTO.

Didn't see it today...was wondering if it might be better to run the nos.from top to bottom...that way..one might glimpse c3 rows of complete digits as opposed to perhaps as in my case four (from two positions). Granted the nos. would be smaller..but it might just increase more accurate returns?

cheers

Mark Grantham · Mar 19, 2012

This is a difficult one with so few numbers to work from. The position of the digits tells us this is L7-553- whioch is a start. This leaves 100 possible numbers, which might be traceable. We don't have ringing details for all of these birds, but I'll investigate. At least some were ringed in South Yorkshire in November 2010, so we may yet be able to trace this...

Mark Grantham · Mar 20, 2012

Having dug and emailed and poked, I've narrowed this down to a bird ringed on either 23rd or 26th November 2010 near Doncaster, so looks to have travelled a bit to get to you!

If you can submit the details online via www.ring.ac using the ring number 'L73553-' I'll make sure it gets picked up our end.

KenM · Mar 20, 2012

Mark Grantham said:
Having dug and emailed and poked, I've narrowed this down to a bird ringed on either 23rd or 26th November 2010 near Doncaster, so looks to have travelled a bit to get to you!

If you can submit the details online via www.ring.ac using the ring number 'L73553-' I'll make sure it gets picked up our end.

Thanks Mark,
Not been seen since!..however will keep my ''mince pies'' open

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