Rythms of Nature in the Barycz Valley

I have found really nice movie about the Polish Barycz Valley by Artur Homan. There is nothing about bird ringing, but still worth a look. See how amazing and beautiful our nature is.  



Rythms of Nature... in the Barycz Valley from Fundacja EkoRozwoju on Vimeo.

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

  

Darvic Black-headed Gulls migration

Every month i get a new recovery of my darvic Black-headed gulls which were ringed in the West Pomerania Province in Poland. This research become more and more interesting. Hope to write a publication about it in nearly future, but right now see these two birds.

Both of gulls were caught in winter time as 2cy.


T24N - north-south migrant
- caught in Stargard (Poland)
- wintering area beetwen Świdnica (Poland), Vienna (Austria), Cracow (Poland)
- breeding ? probably somewhere in the south

T42N - east-west migrant
- caught in Świnoujście (Poland)
-  wintering in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- breeding near Riga (Latvia)

Just two ringed Dunlin & recovery

I ringed only two Dunlin (Calidris alpina) in 2012. What's more, they were caught in Swinoujscie city beach, which is full of tourists throughout the whole year. As you can guess birds were tame and went between the people legs. 

I didn't expect that 2 weeks after ringing date, one of the Dunlin would be corntroled in the Vogelreservat Langenwerder, Germany (181 km distance).

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2013

чтить/Hello! Black-headed Gull

Not so often we receive a report of Polish-ringed bird in Russia. This is a large country with a low population density (just 8 Pop. per km2), so a chance to find ringed bird is even lower. FN77822 was also carrying the darvic ring TH08 when found in July 2010 at pond near Vozdvizhenskoe. The Gull was weak and released in dry place.


This bird had been ringed as 2cy on 15.12.2009 and covered a distance of 1419 km. Interestingly, FN77822 was cought using fishing line on my flat windowsill in Szczecin.

This is my first recovery of Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) in Russia, hope not the last :)


How to catch a gull using finshing line

 Captured

2cy, Black-headed Gull

Map

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... 

 

 

nice ? :)

A good friend from Croatia

 

Do you remember the BHG SK41?  Yesterday again at Miedwie lake [watch in HD].

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.