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.

African !!! Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) found in Poland

We have been so lucky! me and Lukasz Borek were ringing chicks in one of the West Pomeranian gull colony. We chanced on death metal ringed Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) and first didn't belive >>> [INORM SAFRING UNIV. CAPE TOWN S.A. 4H511**]

More than months past since we send the email to the S.A. station and still haven't got any ringing data (for me best rocovery since i've started bird watching :) )

The Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis) with Swedish metal ring

It was one of the worst day in my ring reading activity. Today i observed a family of Sandwich Terns (Thalasseus sandvicensis) [2 ad. and 2 juv.] on the Baltic coast between Miedzywodzie and Dzwinow. Unlucky i have got just digi camera, no spotting scope and no binoculars :( . Have been just 5-6 meters from the bird, have made 5 pictures before the tern flew out...it was not enough to read whole number. I know that the ring had "Stockholm" on it and the first two sign 71..... (not sure for 100%).

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa