Colour-ringed Gull Cyprus (1 Viewer)

[SJC]

A few weeks ago I saw and photographed this gull in Cyprus with a red and white colour ring on one leg and a silver ring on the other. Unfortunately it flew off before I could read them properly but I did manage a photo of the bird as it took off. The red and white ring appears to have the inscription CS17. Any ideas where this bird is from?

 

[phyllosc]

Check out this site

http://www.cr-birding.be/

It has 100's of colour ringing scheme listed.

Dave C

 

[i-Birder]

It seems to be a finnish Lesser Black Backed Gull:

Data from cr-birding.be:

Red ring with code starting with Cxxx. (where x is a number or letter).

Ringing Centre, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoological Museum, P.O. Box 17, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.

tel.: +358-9-191.28.847 or +358-9-191-28.848.

e-mail : [email protected]

website : http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/birding.

note 1: 4500 red rings delivered 2004-2006.

note 2: there can exist small check marks in the code (spots, underlines), please, inform them also.

So please forward the record data...

Kind regards and a happy and healthy year 2010
Gerald

 

[SJC]

Thanks a lot guys, much appreciated!