Beautiful flight of a Greenfinch

I like to netting birds at my feeder but even more to get news about them afterwards. BTW it's the first such great control of my over 300 colour-ringed Greenfinches. Had captured 6YR (an adult, female) on the 30.10.2011 in Stargard Szczecinski, Poland and more then 4 mounths later Lars Jonsson (author of the fieldguide Birds of Europe) found it at his garden in Gotland, Sweden.

fot. Lars Jonsson

more then 720 km distance beetwen ringing and control place

"The Feeder Project 2009/2010" - winter bird ringing

Last weekend we started "The Feeder Project 2009/2010" in Poland. Like every year we will be ringing birds near our feeders. The project has 30 participants who are catching in 24 places (the same time) in whole Poland (see the map). We ring birds, measure them, weigh and check the fat. The present results you can find here(ringed 468,recap 145, 17 species). Already we have 2 interesting controls: belgian Great Tit (Parus major) and lithuanian Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris).

Terms that we will be catching:

5-6.XII.2009
19-20.XII.2009

2-3.I.2010
16-17.I.2010
30-31.I.2010

13-14.II.2010
27-28.II.2010

I will be report results after each date.

Photos from last seasons you can find here