The White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)

I've got this great photo of adult White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) from the nature photographers Andrzej Adamczewski and Piotrek Zientek. Recently they took some greats pictures of raptores near Mysliborz. One of them had a cr-ring. What's interesting the bird was ringed as chick in the East of Poland (500 km distance) on 2009. Please check more Andrzej's pictures at his website www.andrzejadamczewski.pl 

The distribution of Polish cr-ringed eagles can be seen on the map below (green - recovery, red cross - found dead). Source and more information about this project: http://www.lto.org.pl/programy_obr_bielik.html

  

The POLRING has started !!!

Yeah! Finally bird ringing in Poland is at the world's highest level. Since now, we've got the POLRING (http://ring.stornit.gda.pl/).  

The POLRING is a online program provides quick access to the database of whole ringing birds in Poland. This means that both ringers and ring readers continually updates the database. 
Have you ever read a Polish metal or colour ring and still have no answer ? Do you want to see a whole life history of this bird with a google map ? If yes just register at POLRING.

Few easy steps to use the POLRING

1. Go http://ring.stornit.gda.pl/ and change the language to English.

2. Now you have 2 ways:
a) fill the quick form to get the ringing data on your email,
b) register to have regular acces to the program.

3.If "a)" just fill all required fields and wait for an email (take up to 3 days).

3.If "b)" register than log in and click "New records". Fill all required fields and wait for verification (from 15 min to 3 days - depends on the presence data in the database)

           
4.Go "Records" >> "My records" and enjoy :)

 

Polish Bird Ringing Camps

 There are several bird ringing camps in Poland, that run every spring and autumn. Each of them specialize in various species, Want to present some of them. At first two short movies that in funny and artistic way show the life in one of the camp - "Wicie Bird Ringing Camp". So please make your speakers louder, full screen and enjoy watching... 

 

 

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Starting the Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) colour-ring project

We have a great event right now in Poland - Euro 2012, but anyway have some time (in the breaks beetwen matches) for birdringing ;-)))





The kolring team had just started the new colour-ring project in the West Pomerania Province. We study the Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) in the bigest nesting colony in our region, where last year found dead tern with African metal ring. In previous years ringed there lots of chicks, but no feedback so far.  Hope the green plastic rings with white 3 digits code help us to get some interesting recoveries. At the moment captured at nest 18 adult birds - 14 new and 4 control!!!
- 2 Polish
- 2 German: HIDDENSEE NA090581, HIDDENSEE NA123910
 Next week going to catch also a chicks.

 fot. Marcin Sowa                               



















German bird with brand new green ring

Please check terns legs, especially in migration time.

Next Coot (Fulica atra) found in Germany

Next coot from the West Pomerania (Poland) was observed in Germany, exactly in Dresden. We are very glad becouse of the Interrex nackbands using in the project and them high read efficiency. Just several coots were banding in the West Pomerania and results as you can see are amaizing = 3 long distance recoveries.

fot. Hendrik Trapp - Coot (Fulica atra) with white nacband C57, Dresden [Germany]

Coots migration, [ringed in West Pomerania only]

Thanks Hendrik Trapp to report

[2cy vs. AD] Black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus)

It's quite easy to aged 2cy Black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus). This post should help ringers to do it. There are two main features to differ 2cy and Ad:

2cy:- alula dirty dark, with dark outer
- bill and legs orange or dark orange

Ad:- alula clear white/silver
- bill and legs red

fot. Marcin Sowa - 2cy alula, dirty dark

fot. Marcin Sowa - legs of 2cy

fot. Marcin Sowa - feet of 2cy

fot. Marcin Sowa - bill and legs of 2cy

fot. Marcin Sowa - bill and legs of ad

fot. Marcin Sowa - ad alula, clear white