Less than three weeks have passed since we reported on our first overseas recovery of one of our colour marked Black-headed Gulls. Today our second sighting came in, this time of 2A05 sighted on a rubbish dump in Utena in Lithuania!
2A05 was ringed on 09/03/2011 at Preston Docks, Lancs when we managed to catch 5 adults during an afternoons ringing. It was first sighted in Utena on 05/04/2011, 28 days after ringing & then again on 08/04/2011 – 1837km in total.
We’ve only marked six adult birds, two of these have been recovered overseas and another – 2A03 - has also been recovered, however we’re waiting for details on this one. Goes to show how valuable these darvic rings are!!
Thanks to Darius Norkunas for reporting this sighting.
Wow! You have a god project. Two out of six is great.
ReplyDeleteWe have not seen 2A00 in Oslo again, but we are out most day looking, and ringing. And I have told some of them to bring there white darvic rings to Manchester next winter!
Carsten