Ivel Ringing Group: No corny jokes please!

Saturday 10 November 2012

No corny jokes please!

A roost catch produced 29 birds this evening and included this beauty (a female on size):

Above & Below: A Corn Bunting.

Only one was caught (catching this species is notorioiusly difficult) but I learnt several things from this experiment (the net rides were not new but I'd not used them at dusk before). Thanks go to Mike for helping out on short notice.

This species is depicted on the Ivel Ringing Group logo so it's about time we started catching them again.

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Selected Latest Recoveries

Cetti's Warbler: Y113468

Ringed: 26/08/12 at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire.
Controlled: 11/11/12 at Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. Duration: 77 days Distance: 63km Direction: WSW

Mute Swan: W34918

Ringed: 03/10/12 at Brandon Creek, Norfolk.
Controlled: 15/10/12 at St. Neots, Cambridgeshire.
Duration: 12 days Distance: 54km Direction: SW

Lesser Redpoll: Y754233

Ringed: 13/10/12 near Bestwood, Nottinghamshire.
Controlled: 28/10/12 at Priory Country Park, Bedford. Duration: 15 days Distance: 113km Direction: SSE

Swallow: Y258832

Ringed: 09/07/12 near Hawnby, North Yorks.
Controlled: 22/09/12 at Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. Duration: 75 days Distance: 258km Direction: S

Swallow: Y763184

Ringed: 13/07/12 near Hazleslack, Storth, Cumbria. Controlled: 03/09/12 at Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. Duration: 52 days Distance: 283km Direction: SSE

Sand Martin: Y426744

Ringed: 19/08/12 at Icklesham, East Sussex
Controlled: 31/08/12 at Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. Duration: 12 days Distance: 154km Direction: NNW

Goldfinch: Y656093

Ringed: 10/08/12 at Links Wood, Newport, Fife
Controlled: 15/11/12 at Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Duration: 97 days Distance: 515km Direction: SSE

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A network of over 2,500 highly trained and licensed volunteers currently ring over 850,000 birds every year. On average only one in every one hundred birds ringed is subsequently recaught elsewhere or found by a member of the public and reported.

Every report of a ringed bird is therefore of extreme value. To report a dead or colour-ringed bird, go to http://www.ring.ac .
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Saturday 10 November 2012

No corny jokes please!

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