Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Colour Ringed Black-headed Gull

A pretty good sized gull roost this evening with about 4000 Black-headed Gulls Present plus c300 Common Gull, 500 Herring Gulls.  Also fair numbers of Lesser and Great Black-backed Gull.  In the mass were two colour ringed Herring Gulls from the North Thames Ringing Group.  Also two colour ringed Black-headed Gulls.  See below.

This colour ringed bird was on the sand spit. Yellow 2J09"  It was ringed in March 2017 at Pitsea landfill by the North Thames Ringing Group.

Also present was "White 20P3".  Ringed in the UK.  Details awaited.

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