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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vincent van der Spek" data-source="post: 3668415" data-attributes="member: 135873">I spoke to Jan Visser. Heilongjiang indeed has a well-established project. There are five ringing sites, all in different habitat in the same nature park. Each site has two employees. Jan has visited three of these sites, where he met the fella that ringed the bird we retrapped in Holland. They mainly use decoys to lure in birds. The have special traps for redpolls (Jan sent me a picture; I'll ask if I can use it for my website; EDIT: I've added the pic). To give an idea: in 2011 they trapped a little over 7800 new birds of 91 species.  And thanks to all who are so positive about the overview. Overwhelming, really!</blockquote>