some details on projects operated by the Norwegian scheme whence the Alkborough Curlew Sandpiper came -- a lot to look out for -- should be interesting trying to read the 3 characters on a Grasshopper Warbler ring in the field!
Sunnmøre Ringing Group / Curlew Sandpiper- project,
c/o Kjell Mork Soot,
Hareidsvegen 234,
N-6060 Hareid,
Norway
Hareid, Norway 01.09.2013.
Graham Catley,
13 West Acridge,
Barton -on-Humber,
North Lincolnshire, England.
(Email:graham.catley@btopenworld.com)
Thank you very much for taking the time to report to us details of the sighting of a flagged Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) . Information about the bird and its movement is given below:
Ring no : Stavanger 8L05127 - 8L05403
Yellow flag A..( Left tarsus : metal ring. Left tibia: red colour ring . Right tibia: yellow colour ring engraved with three black letters A..). All flags used start with the letter A..
Age/sex: 1K / 1cy (hatched 2013).
Ringing date: 15.08 – 28.08.2013
Ringing place:Makkevika (62.30N-06.02E) (Giske Ornithological Station), Giske, Møre & Romsdal, Norway.
Remarks: Caught in mist net at our wader station.
Ringers: Petter Folkestad and /or Sveinung Remøy and / or Kjell Mork Soot.
Finding date: 29.08 and 30.08.2013 .
Observed : Humber (53.42.03N-00.39.30W) Alkborough Flats, North Lincolnshire, England
Distance : 1052 km SSW. Direction: 205 deg. Time: max 14 days.
Remarks: Photodocumented, but letters at the flag not readable. In a flock of 12 juvenile Curlew Sandpipers.
Observer: Graham Catley.
Thank you very much for the information!
If you notice any errors in the information, please inform us about your corrections.
We are ringing waders and in western Norway (Sunnmøre Ringing Group) and at Svalbard (Longyearbyen Feltbiologiske Forening / Norsk Polarinstitutt) . I will mention the projects here:
Sunnmøre, western Norway:
Sunnmøre Ringing Group has some cr-projects in western Norway. We hope, of course, that you will look for flagged Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula) , Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleuca) , Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) and Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) in the future ! All these species have red colour ring on left tibia and yellow flag on right tibia engraved with 3 black letters.
Last season (2012) we also started cr-marking Little Stint (Calidris minuta) . (Metal ring left tarsus. Red cr-ring above the metal ring. Right tarsus yellow ring engraved with 3 black letters).
We also flag Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) with yellow colour ring and orange flag engraved with 3 black letters.
We colour ring Curlew (Numenius arquata) : orange plain ring on left tibia and orange ring engraved with 3 black letters on right tibia.
And Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus), Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba) Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) and Grashopper Warbler (Locustella naevia) with yellow ring engraved with 3 black letters on right tarsus.
Svalbard (Arctis Ocean):
At Svalbard (Artic Ocean) we flag Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) :
a) Longyearbyen: orange colour ring and light green (lime) flag with 3 black letters .
b) Longyearbyen: orange colour ring and (dark) green flag with 3 white letters.
c) Sørkappøya (South Cape Island) : yellow colour ring and orange flag, 3 black letters .
We also have started to flag Dunlin (Calidris alpina) at Svalbard: orange marker ring on left tibia, and orange flag engraved with 3 black letters on right tibia.
Summer 2012 we also started flagging Common Ringed Plover at Svalbard: Yellow marker ring at left tibia, and orange flag engraved with 3 black letters on right tibia.
If you are interested to see photos etc from Longyearbyen, Svalbard
www.LoFF.biz. It is members of LoFF (Longyearbyen Feltbiologiske Forening) who are ringing/flagging Purples and other waders at Svalbard. More about our projects you also find in
www.svalbardbirds.com/Sorkappoya-filer/sorkappoya.htm Our ringing group has a webside,
www.fugler.com . Unfortunately written only in Norwegian.
The Italian web-side
www.crb-photoguide.com show more than 2000 photos of colour marked birds in Europe, also from our projects.
Yours sincerely,
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