colour ringed Herring Gulls, France (1 Viewer)

[Samuel Perfect]

found two colour ringed Herring Gulls in Calais, France yesterday. One with red ring on the left tarsus (number illegible due to strong wind and sand blown into my eyes). Second individual with a blue ring and letters *ZAS also on the right tarsus. Couldn't quite tell if there was another letter before the Z as it was slightly submerged in water.

Any advice on where to submit the records would be much appreciated,

Cheers,

 

[Robert S J Smith]

This website should bring up the ringing scheme they're under but not every scheme is listed and you may get more than one result.

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

 

[Samuel Perfect]

Cheers Robert :t:

 

[Steve Lister]

The first one looks orange more than red and so could be a North Thames Gull Group bird ringed at Rainham or Pitsea landfill sites. But without the code that is as far as you will get.

Steve

 

[Samuel Perfect]

Cheers Steve, wasn't expecting to get far with the orange/red colour ringed individual but I will try and see whether it's possible submitting anything for the blue colour ringed one, even if I may be missing a letter on the ring.

 

[Rich Bonser]

Cheers Steve, wasn't expecting to get far with the orange/red colour ringed individual but I will try and see whether it's possible submitting anything for the blue colour ringed one, even if I may be missing a letter on the ring.

As Steve says there's not a lot you can do with rings unless you have all the numbers/letters read. However, I'd bet that the red ringed bird is from the North Thames Gull Group (their rings can pale to orange/red through wear) and the blue-ringed bird is from a Belgian ringing scheme here.

Cheers
Rich
http://rothandb.blogspot.co.uk/