Monday 11 April 2011

2A05 Goes to Lithuania!

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!!

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2A05.

Thanks to Darius Norkunas for reporting this sighting.

1 comment:

  1. Wow! You have a god project. Two out of six is great.
    We 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

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