The Coot (Fulica atra) polish project!

First polish colour-ringed coots flew away on holidays 2009. The neckbands that we are using are white with black digits (exact information about project you can find here). At the moment have more than 50 ringed birds and going to catch several hundred durning winter. Coots are being colour-ringed (present) in 4 parts of Poland: zachodniopomorskie, wielkopolskie, lodzkie and slask.

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa

The Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) on the polish seaside

Last time on Swinoujscie beach i was obserwed a tame, juv Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis). The bird was walking among people and feared nothing. So after a while was mine :) Hope that she will fly further to the south.

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa

Lesser Black-backed Gull in Świnoujście

Last thursday we observed 1cy LBBG with cr-ring black code J4HH in Świnoujście. It has been ringed in Musvær, Tromsø, Troms, Norway at the end of the june. The distance between ringing place is nearly 1800 km !!!.

Kolring TEAM starts colourmarking Herring gulls (Larus argentatus)

On October 2009 the Kolring TEAM started marking wintering Herring gulls. The area of reaserch is the NW part of Poland (especially zachodniopomorskie). We would like to know where these wintering gulls come from and how they relocated.

Codes that we are using: green 00P9 - 99P9. If You will see a gull with our ring please inform us.

fot. Marcin Sowa

fot. Marcin Sowa

Cooming back

We are comming back after shot break. Now we are full of energy to work :)

Miedwie trip

Finally found some time to ringreading. Today me and Lukasz were on the Miedwie lake. Saw nice flock of Common Cranes - about 520 birds. One had combinations of colour rings (probably become to german project).

fot. Łukasz Borek


fot. Łukasz Borek



Visited also Morzyczyn - gulls roosting area. Have seen there BHG with plastic ring and some with metal rings, all of them polish.

fot. Łukasz Borek

Copenhagen's Black-headed gulls

Last weekend spent in Copenhagen, DK. Very nice city :) not only to sightseeing. In a few free time tried to watch some rings on the BHG, read just one - dannish of course. Anyway i hope to get long life history about it.

fot. Marcin Sowa


fot. Marcin Sowa

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Lukasz was very lucky recently. On the 20th of July he observed a Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) near Stargard, PL. Additionally the bird had the JN 3 colour ring belong to german project.

fot. Łukasz Borek

fot. Łukasz Borek

Geeses with neckbands

Today Zbyszek Kajzer saw two Greylag Gooses (Anser anser) with yellow neckbands in Gryfino, PL. The codes: H 05 and N 82. They were in the large flock (about 1050) of this species and belong to german project.

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer

BHG from Craotia

The gull season on the Miedwie lake is going to start. Today i observed about 150 roosting BHG there, a few with polish rings and one had white plastic ring with dark digits S552. It's bird from Croatia (my first recovery of BHG from there) so i am twice happy :) unlucky forgot my camera and don't have any photos.