CRringed Yellow-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) in French Alps

Mont Blanc
Yesterday i came back from ski-holidays in France (Morillon). Was beautifull, lot's of snow and wide pistes, many bottles of wine :) and international atmosphere (greetings to colleagues from New Zealand and Beth from Bristol).

Had also some time to ringreading. I read colourings combination on Yellow-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) [left leg green, red, right leg black, white] in Flaine. If You know sth about this bird please let me know.

PS If you went skiing to the Alps, take your rings and some bread with.

fot. Marcin Sowa
fot. Marcin Sowa
fot. Marcin Sowa

Danish and Polish pedestrian

Recently I have been Swinoujscie and have been suprised when i saw a flock of Mute Swans (Cygnus olor) were walking through the streets. Almost had Polish metal rings, but one was carrying J6062 (Denmark).

fot. Marcin Sowa

Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides) was caught in Gdansk-Szadolki dump !!!

fot. Sabina Kaszak
Unbelievable information from the Kuling group. Today durning their regular field work they caught and colourringed the Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides) [first ever for Poland] in Gdansk-Szadolki rubbish dump. Congratulations guys !!!

fot. Sabina Kaszak

Latvian swan on Nowogard lake

Just have recived information from Grzegorz Wieprzowski, who was bird watching in Nowogard yesterday. He read some Polish Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) and one very interesting EK433 from Latvia. At least he had to fly 500 km.

fot. Grzegorz Wieprzowski

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2011

Finnish Great Black-backed Gull on the Wloclawek dam

Some news from central Poland. On the end of November Michał Radziszewski observed a finnish Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) on Wloclawek dam. The bird had been ringed in Espoo on summer 2010 as adult.

The Wloclawek dam on Wisła river is one the bigest hydroelectric powerstation in Poland. There is also a gulls colony: Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) & Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnas) and their hybrids.

fot. Michał Radziszewski

Distance about 900 km

Ring read at Rewal beach [Batlic sea]

Some new ring read at Rewal from yeasterday. Both Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) read by Piotrek Zientek. One from Polish project and the second German.

The whole life history of the X79C you can get at the green gull website. As you can see the gull was ringed in Germany and after flew to Denmark.

fot. Piotr Zientek - Herring Gulls and Great Black -backed Gulls

fot. Piotr Zientek - German Herring Gull

fot. Piotr Zientek - Polish Herring Gull

Colourringed gulls on Świnoujście's rubbish tip

Today Zbyszek Kajzer and Marcin Solowiej got on Rubbish tip in Świnoujście. We have beautifull winter right now in West Pomerania. That reason there are lot's of hungry gulls, which are tame. Zbyszek and Marcin have read:

- 4 Herring gulls Poland (green with P)
- 5 Herring gulls from Finland
- 1 Herring gull from Lithuania
- 1 Common gull from Netherlands

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer - Lithuanian Herring gull (Larus argentatus)

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer- guest from Netherlands

Finnish gulls


fot. Zbyszek Kajzer
fot. Zbyszek Kajzer

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer


fot. Zbyszek Kajzer

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer


Polish gulls

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer

fot. Zbyszek Kajzer

The "Bird feeder action 2010" - let's start ringing!

Next weekend we are starting with the "Bird feeder action 2010" in Poland. It's kind of play among Polish ringers, who catch birds using mistnets by their bird feeders. Rules are quite easy: You can situated your feeder wherever you want (forest, garden etc.) and feed whatever you want (sunflower, corn, pork fat etc.). The most important is the score - numbers of ringed birds and recaps. By the way we weigh and measure birds, so after few years hope to write nice publication.

Links below:

1) Photos from the last season
2) The results from the last season 2009/2010
3) The map with recoveries

More Cr-ringed gulls from Polish Baltic Coast

More Cr-ringed gulls from Polish Baltic Coast read by Piotrek Zientek.

fot. Piotr Zientek - yellow PDVX (Poland)
fot. Piotr Zientek - ad. Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) white MA014, (Sweden)
fot. Piotr Zientek - ad. Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) white M75XR, (Sweden)
fot. Piotr Zientek - 3cy Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) white M06UR, (Sweden)