Yellow ring on Yellow Legged Gull in Frankfurt AM - Origins? (1 Viewer)

[Jakob72]

Last week I saw this second year Yellow-Legged Gull in Frankfurt AM, Germany. Looking at the photo at home, I noticed that it had a yellow ring on its left leg. Unfortunately, it was too distant to get a good Picture and I could not read the letters (ends with "M" or "H"?).

www.cr-birding.org does not show any Yellow-Legged Gulls Projects with yellow rings other than in the Canary Islands...

/Per

 

[Rich Bonser]

Last week I saw this second year Yellow-Legged Gull in Frankfurt AM, Germany. Looking at the photo at home, I noticed that it had a yellow ring on its left leg. Unfortunately, it was too distant to get a good Picture and I could not read the letters (ends with "M" or "H"?).

www.cr-birding.org does not show any Yellow-Legged Gulls Projects with yellow rings other than in the Canary Islands...

/Per

Hi Per
This will be a local bird from Frankfurt, and part of the Helgoland ringing scheme. They seem to do a fair bit of ringing in Frankfurt itself so guess your bird was one of last season's offspring in the local area. Here is a bird I found from the same scheme http://rothandb.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/german-ringed-juvenile-ylg-at-rainham.html

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

 

[Jakob72]

Thanks a lot for the info! I visit Frankfurt quite often (business) and I have always wondered where the YLG:s flying by along the river Main comes from.

Do you by any chance know where the colony where they breed is located?

Do you also know if this observation should be reported somewhere?

Regards
Per

 

[Rich Bonser]

Thanks a lot for the info! I visit Frankfurt quite often (business) and I have always wondered where the YLG:s flying by along the river Main comes from.

Do you by any chance know where the colony where they breed is located?

Do you also know if this observation should be reported somewhere?

Regards
Per

I don't think you'll get far unfortunately with this record because, as you say, the ring code cannot be read. However, if you do get more ringed gulls on your trips to Frankfurt with codes read then email Sonke Martens at [email protected].

In terms of the location of the colony, the juvenile I saw last August in the previous link was ringed at Posthof, Frankfurt am Main - that's all the info I have sorry.

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

 

[Jakob72]

Thanks again. I'll keep my eyes open and try to get better shots where the ring numbers/letters are visible...

/Per