Updated on : 23.10.01
for those who want to see how the mentioned cr-rings look like, take a look at Holmers' Vonk webpage ( http://www.holmer.nl/birdrings.htm )
take a look at a cr-Hartlaub's Gull [Larus hartlaubii] project in South Africa at : http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/species/sp316_04.htm
Different colour-ring projects on small gulls :
Mediterranean Gull [23.10.01]
France : Camargue - l'Estuaire de la Seine et la côte autour d'Antifer - Dunkerque (in French) - Dunkerque - Lac Hossegor (in French)
Italy : Central- and North Adriatic coast - Lake Varano
United Kingdom : Great Yarmouth - Durham - Blackpill, Swansea, Wales
Ireland : Dunlaoighre, County Dublin
Spain : Llobregat Delta
- Asturias/Asturies (north of Spain)
Hints to watch Mediterranean Gulls
Mediterranean Gull report-fiche
green ( letter / number / letter )
green ( letter A , C , J , E , P , H , K and numbers )
green ring ( letter R and numbers )
green ring (number / letter / number)
Sky-blue ring with code (1 letter (R) and 2 numbers).
Martin Boschert, 10 Nelkenstrasse, 77815 Bühl, Germany.
fax: +49-72.23-90.01.07.
e-mail: bioplan.buehl@t-online.de
e-mail: christian-dronneau@cr-alsace.fr
note 1: until 1999 some 145 rings have been placed from which 85 light-blue and 23 green.
note 2: the sky-blue is quick used and turns into 'white', therefore greens rings have been used since 1999. As first letter is used A,C,M, E,H,J and a second letter is used A,C,EH,J,K,L,M,N,P,R,T,V,W,X,Y. As number is used 1 till 9, but the number 0 is not used.
note 3: since 1999 in three other places in Germany all together 3 chicks were ringed with green rings.
White ring with code (2 numbers and 1 letter, 1 number and 2 letters since 1999).
Peter L. Meininger, RIKZ, Postbus 8039, 4330 EA Middelburg, The Netherlands.
fax.: +31-118.616.500.
e-mail: p.l.meininger@rikz.rws.minvenw.nl
note 1: white ring on the left leg (ringed as pulli),white ring on the right leg (ringed as adult).
note 2: for information in English or in French on Med.Gull in The Netherlands and Belgium and the results of the breeding-season 2000.
note 3: in total 4 white rings (number/letter/number ; letter/letter/number ; letter/letter/letter) are used in Denmark and can be reported to the Dutch project or to KTPedersen@zmuc.ku.dk
note 4: all sightings sent to Peter Meininger will be rewarded with a life history on a paper printout. On the other hand, fully updated life histories of all birds ever sighted by one observer can be obtained (only via e-mail) through Renaud.Flamant@skynet.be on simple request (by means of a compressed (ZIP) rich text format rtf-file).
Green ring with white code ( letter A, C or J, E, and P and 2 numbers ) - used in France -
Green ring with white code ( letter R and 3 numbers ) - used in France -
Green ring with white code (2 numbers and 1 letter (A,E,J,K,L,M,R,T,U,Y)) - used in Belgium -
Camille Duponcheel, 10 La Maladerie, 59181 Steenwerck, France.
e-mail: cduponcheel@nordnet.fr
with Renaud Flamant as info. addressee when sent by e-mail Renaud.Flamant@skynet.be
note 1: the French and the Belgian projects are respectively running since 1991 and 2000. Around 850 and 750 green rings have been respectively used in France and Belgium until 2001.
note 2: used codes in the North of France : C00 - C99 ,E00 - E99, J00-J99 , R201-R00 , A00-A99 , H00-H99 , K00-K36 ; in the Camargue : 0A0-9A9 , 0C0-9C9 , T00-T99.
note 3: during summer 2000, in the colony of Oye Plage (France) 53 juv. Med gulls have been ringed from which 35 with a green ring, during summer 2001, 224 birds are ringed in The Camargue, 163 at Oye Plage, Pas de Calais and 17 at Marquenterre, Baie de Somme.
note 4: all sightings will be rewarded with a life history on a paper printout. On the other hand, fully updated life histories of all birds ever sighted by one observer can be obtained (only via e-mail).
Yellow ring with code (2 numbers/1 letter).
Pete Findley, 75 Gladstone Road, Walmer, Deal, Kent CT14 7ET, United Kingdom.
Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory, Guilford Road, Sandwich Bay, Kent CT13 9PF, United Kingdom.
e-mail: pwjfindley@hotmail.com
note 1: this project is running in the United Kingdom since 1996.
note 2: a few birds have been ringed in Ireland.
Red ring with white code (letter (P) and two numbers).
Przemek Chylarecki, Gdansk Ornithological Station, Institute of Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Nadwislanska 108, PL-80680 Gdansk 40, Poland.
tel.: +48-58-308.07.59.
fax: +48-58-308.09.82.
e-mail: pchyl@stornit.gda.pl
note 1: used codes are P00-P89.
Red ring with white code (letter (S) and two numbers.
Jan Svetlik, Eisnerova 15, 84107 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
e-mail: jan.svetlik@nextra.sk
note 1: these rings have been used from 2001 onwards on chicks and breeding birds.
Red ring with white code (letter (H) and 3 numbers).
Red ring with white code (4 or 3 alphanumeric code).
Karcza Zsolt, Hungarian Bird Ringing Center, Költo 21, 1121 Budapest, Hungary.
e-mail: karcza.zsolt@freemail.hu
note 1: this project is running in Hungary since 1994, with some 500 rings in the period 1994-96.
note 2: several birds are now ringed in the Czech republic by Jozef Chytil.
note 3: during 2001 three breeding places remain in the Czech Republic : 7 pairs at Nove Mlyny, 4 pairs at the Karvina fishponds and 3 pairs at Chomoutov.
Dark-blue ring with white code (1 letter and 2 numbers).
Dark-blue ring with white code (4 letters, the first is always I).
Instituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica, INFS, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064 Ozzano Emilia BO - Italy.
fax.: +39-51-79.66.28.
e-mail: infszumi@iperbole.bologna.it
note 1: in the Po Delta area (N. Italy) from 1990-1994 the used codes are from A02 till Y99 (project by R. Santolini, total ringed 664 ringed pulli). Details : A02-B06 , 1990 ; B07-B78 and C01-C99 , 1991 ; B80-B99 and S01-S99 , 1992 ; H00-H99 and X02-X99 , 1993 ; X01-X98 and Y01-Y99 , 1994. Pay attention , rings starting with X and Y can be very easily misread.
note 2: in the Margherita di Savoia salines (S. Italy) the
used codes are:
IAAA-IABH (1195, 22 pulli) , IABS-IADK (1996, 34 pulli) , IADL-IBCS
(1997, 163 pulli ). Project by A. Magnani and N. Bacetti. No birds
have been ringed in 1998-2000 (zero breeding success). A few chicks
were only metal-ringed in 2001.
note 3: in the Po-delta area, codes used for chicks in 1998-2001 are as follows :
1998 : ICAA-IDZZ, Saline di Cervia (449 birds) ; IBCT-IBDJ, Saline di Comacchio (9 birds).; 1999 : IFAA-IFAZ, Salina di Cervia (14 birds) ; IFAZ-IFJZ , Valli Bertuzzi (91 birds) ; IFKB-IFNZ, Saline Commacchio (43 birds) ; IFPA-IFVC, Valli Comacchio (47 birds) , IFVD-IHDZ, Pialassa Baiona (86 birds).
2000 : IHPA-IHTV , IHZA-IHZV , IJAA-IJAZ , IJLA-IJSZ, IJTN-IJVF, Saline Cervia (128 birds) ; IJBA-IJDH, Saline Comacchio (36 birds), IHVA-IHVZ, IJDJ-IJKZ,IJTA-IJTL,IJZA-IJZZ, Valli Comacchio (10 birds).
2001 : IKPB-ILAZ, Saline di Cervia (86 birds).
note 4: codes IBDK-IBSZ were used by A. Talamelli on118 adults trapped 1998-2001 along the Adriatic beaches and at the Saline do Commacchio. These birds partky belong to non-Italian populations, as shown by readings obtained from the Black Sea colonies.
Black ring with white code (letter U (horizontal) and 3 numbers (vertical).
Black ring with white code (number-letter-number or number-number-letter or letter-number-letter).
Renaud Flamant, 23 rue de l'Orme/Olmstraat, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.
tel./fax.: +32.2-734.73.55.
e-mail: Renaud.Flamant@skynet.be
note 1: rings have been used in '94, '97, 98, and '99 and '00.
note 2: in 1994 296 rings have been used in Ukraine (in collaboration with Antonina Rudenko & Tatjana Ardamatskaya).
note 3: from 1997 on, black rings have been used in Greece (in collaboration with Vassilis Goutner) and Turkey (in collaboration Suhendan Karauz).
note 4: from 1998 onwards, black rings have been used in Ukraine (in collaboration with Antonina Rudenko (Black Sea Biosphere Reserve), Valery Siokhin and Alexander Matsyura (Sivash).
note 5: due to bad meteorological conditions, all Med. Gull colonies of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve have been destroyed; hence no colour-ringing has been performed in 2001 in Ukraine. Other reasons prevented Med. Gulls from being colour-ringed in Turkey and Greece in 2001. New colour-ringing activities are planned in these countries in 2002.
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05760
Laughing Gull - Larus atricilla.
White ring (on right tarsus) and metal ring (on right tibia).
AG Möwen NRW, A. Buchheim, c/o Biol.Stat. Witten, Am Hang 2, D-58453 Witten, Germany.
e-mail: abu.cachellis@web.de
note 1: the bird was caught at the Zwillbroker Venn, Germany
on the first of June 2001.
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05740 Relict
Gull - Larus relictus.
Yellow plastic ring (on left leg) and a metal ring (on right leg).
David Melville, WWF Hong Kong, GPO Box 12721 Hong Kong.
e-mail : wwf@wwf.org.hk
look also at http://www.orientalbirdclub.org
note 1: mid-june '98 some 567 Relict Gull chicks were ringed
at the breeding colony at Taolomiao-Alashan Nur, Inner Mongolia,
China.
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05850
Slender-billed Gull - Larus genei.
Colour and type of rings on legs :
Black ring (on right leg) with white code ( 3 alphanumeric code ).
Instituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica, INFS, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064 Ozzano Emilia BO - Italy.
fax: +39-51-79.66.28.
e-mail: infszumi@iperbole.bologna.it
note 1: code used is A01-A67, A111-A150were used in Comacchio Lagoon in 1991-95 by M. Fasola.
note 2: code currently in use are IAAA to IPCS (1995-2001). Chicks are being ringed in Apulia (Margherita di Savoia saltpans), Sardinia (Cagliari and Oristano) and Po Delta (Comacchio and Pialassa Baiona).
note 3: code ISAA to ISCF were used in Senegal by Didier Vangeluwe.
note 4: ca. 1900 chicks were ringed in Italy in 1991-2001.
Green ring (on right leg) with white code ( 3 letter code ).
Nicolas Sadoul , Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, 13200 Arles, France.
tel.: +33-(0)4-90.97.20.13.
fax.: +33-(0)4-90.97.20.19.
e-mail: sadoul@tour-du-valat.com
website: http://www.tour-du-valat.com
note 1: letters used are: A,B,C,D,F,H,J,K,L,N,P,S,T,V,X,Z.
note 2: code used in: 1997 for 505 pulli starts by A or B ; 1998 for 689 pulli starts by C or D or F ; 1999 for 658 pulli starts by F or H or J or K ; 2000 for 187 pulli starts by K or L.
note 3: as an extra control, you can look and write down the direction of reading the ring (up-down or down-up).
White ring with code (3 alphanumeric code).
Charo Cañas Campoamor, Estacion Biológica de Doñana, Dpto. Anillamiento. Apdo. Correos nr4, 21760 Matalascañas (Almonte), Spain.
fax.: +34-959-44.00.33
e-mail: charina@ebd.csic.es
e-mail: daniel@porthos.bio.ub.es
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05890
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis.
White ring (on tarsus) with black code (3 numbers) and blue ring without code (on other tarsus).
Luis Palomares Atienza, Javier Marchamalo de Blas, J.M. Traverso
Martinez et J.José Sainz Ortigosa, C/San Claudio 30 3°D,
28038 Madrid, Spain.
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06040
Ivory Gull - Pagophila eburnea.
Combination of rings.
Vidar Bakken, University of Oslo, Zoological Museum, Sarsgt. 1, 0562 Oslo, Norway.
e-mail: vidar.bakken@toyen.uio.no
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Information on the different projects.
The projects here mentioned are as accurate as possible. If your observation is not exactly corresponding with these projects, please visit the mystery cr-bird page and/or contact :
Dirk Raes, Waterloo-stwg. 1, 1640 Sint Genesius Rode, Belgium.
e-mail: Dirk.Raes@ping.be
Kjeld T. Pedersen, Zoologisk Museum, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 K¢benhavn, Denmark or Daglykkevej. 7, 2650 Hvidore, Denmark.
fax: +45-353.21.010.
e-mail: KTPedersen@zmuc.ku.dk
Generally, on colour-rings with four alphanumeric codes, the first letter indicates the country of origin :
A = Germany (west)
C = Suomi Finland
E = The Netherlands
G = United Kingdom
H = Hungary
J = Norway
K = Russia
M = Sweden
N = Spain
P = Estonia
R = France
S = Teici State Nature Reserve (Latvia)
U = Ukraine
V = Denmark
X = Germany
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Ringing details of blue-ringed Mediterranean Gulls - Italy -
year , place , ringdetails , alu.ring , ringed birds
1990 Bertuzzi , letter A on B on right leg , right tibia , 102
1991 Bertuzzi , letter B on left leg , left tibia , 70
1991 Comacchio , letter C on right leg , right tibia , 99
1992 Bertuzzi , letter B, E or S on left leg , left tibia , 192
1993 Bertuzzi , letter H or X on left leg , right tibia , 145
1994 Bertuzzi , letter X or Y on right leg , right tibia , 73
1995
1996 16
[ from 1995 on, the rings will be still blue, but the letter
will be between the two numbers ].
Breeding season 2000:
Saline di Commacchio (Ferrara province): ca. 35 chicks ringed in June by Magnani, Arveda and Bacetti. This was the entire chick production of this small colony.
Southern part of Commacchio lagoon (Ravenna province) : ca. 120 chicks ringed by Talamelli, Arveda and Melega in June. This was only a part of the chick production of the Lavadena colony, which was just one of several colonies existing in the Comacchio Lagoon this year.
Saline di Cervia (Ravenna province) : 128 chicks were ringed on the 20th of July by Magnani. These represented ca. one third of the chick production of a new colony of more than 600 pairs which settled very late in the season, after failing at Pialassa Baiona. Chicks from another small colony settled at this site in normal time, on the dike where an immense colony bred in 1998, were not ringed.
Margherita di Savoia (South Italy) : no ringing again for the third consecutive year. None of the few pairs which attempted breeding there, inside large Slender-billed Gull colonies, was successful.
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Ringing details of white-ringed Mediterranean Gulls - The Netherlands / Belgium -
In the period 1990-97 some 960 rings have been used in The
Netherlands (coordination Peter Meininger) and Belgium (coordination
Renaud Flamant).
In 1997 250 new white rings were used. By May 1997, the percentage
of recovery of the birds colour-ringed up to 1996 was 44% for
the birds ringed as chicks and 77% for those ringed as adults.
1996 was a very good breeding season in The Netherlands and Belgium
and resulted in an unprecedented number of colour ringed pulli
and breeding birds. Spring '96, 140 pulli were colour-ringed in
the Netherlands, 71 pulli and 45 breeding birds in Belgium, which
boosts the total of white colour ringed Mediterranean Gulls up
to 751 birds.
At that moment, the percentage recovery of the birds colour-ringed up to 1995 is 50% for the pulli and 82% for the birds ringed as adult or second year breeder.
Most sightings have been made in the area of Boulogne (Pas-de-Calais,
France), where the 'observation pressure' is very high compared
to most other locations sending reports. We believe that there
are many places where the number of colour ringed birds are under-estimated
or unknown and that these sites are not searched thoroughly at
the moment.
All white colourringed Mediterranean Gulls, ringed in Belgium
and The Netherlands, wear an official metal ring (Vogeltrekstation
Arnhem or Bruxelles) and a white colourring with black engraved
code (except two birds without metal ring).
In spring '96, 140 pulli were colourringed in The Netherlands
and 71 pulli and 45 breeding birds in Belgium. This boosts the
total of white colourringed Med. Gulls up to 751 birds.
There are two types of colourrings:
- a code consisting of two digits followed by one letter.
The code is vertically engraved, three times around the ring and
has to be read downwards. This type has been put on the birds
from 1990 up to '96.
- a code consisting of a fixed letter "E" and two digits
followed by one letter.
The letter "E" is engraved one time horizontally; the
two digits and one letter are engraved vertically. The code has
to be read upwards. Due to the fixed letter "E", the
vertical engraving is put two instead of three times. This type
has been put on the birds from 1996. (some confusing letters like
X,Y and V have been used; read exact please ! )
Birds colourringed as pullus have the white colourring on the left tarsus (except 4 birds). Birds ringed as breeding bird in the colony have the white colourring on the right tarsus. All birds have their metal ring on the opposite leg, tarsus or tibia, with exception of all the birds wearing a colourring of the "Y"-series. The birds of the "Y"-series have the metal ring on the tibia of the leg with colourring. This was especially done to exclude incorrect readings between the "Y" and the "V"-series. It is therefore very important to determinate on which leg/tarsus/tibia the metal ring and the colourring are situated.
After the 450 pairs in 1999, Belgium hosted a more reasonable population of around 183 pairs ( 90 Zeebrugge, 18 Sint Kruis Winkel (near Gent) , 28 Zwijndrecht (near Antwerpen) , 8 Zandvlietsluis (near Antwerpen) , 12 Lillo Hoge Maaey (near Antwerpen) , 18 Kieldrecht (near Antwerpen) , 9 Kwaadmechelen (Limburg).
Ringing results are as follows (approx.) : chicks with only a metal ring : +/-150 ; chicks with a white ring : 21 ; chicks with a green ring : 30 ; breeding birds with a white ring : 29 ; breeding birds with a green ring : 56 ; birds captured outside colonies : white 5, green 13.
Thus around 300 birds left Belgium with a new metal ring,
half of them have been colour-ringed. Mainly due to the bad meteorological
situation, few chicks -51- could be colour-ringed. You'll notice
that, whenever possible, the metal ring was in steel and put below
the knee to make metal-ring-reeding easier.
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Larus canus, adult, male, aluminium ring Estonia Matsalu E56387, white plastic P490
Larus canus, adult, female, aluminium ring Estonia Matsalu E56756 on left tibia, celluloid rings: on right tibia red; on left tarsus from above green, black and green.
Larus canus, adult, male, aluminium ring Estonia Matsalu E56162, white plastic P565
NB. Breeding partners spend winter separately. For example, this male (P565) was observed from 05.05 1998 until 22.11.1998 in France. His "wife" (white plastic PE82) was observed 26.11.1998 near Laboe, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (54.24 N 10.13 E) by Haiko Taudien.
Courtesy of Kalev Rattiste.
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Mediterranean Gull newsletter December '99.
As you will notice in the table lots of Med Gulls have been colour-ringed in 1999, waiting for you and your telescope, proudly showing their brand new ring : 1217 black, 301 dark blue, 279 white, 128 red, 65 green and 12 yellow rings! What are you waiting for? As it has been done in the past, we ask for your collaboration. Could you please keep a very sharp lookout for colour-ringed Mediterranean Gulls ? May we ask you to write down as many details as possible when reading a ring : date, place with geographical coordinates, age, position of rings (colour AND metal ring, left, right, tibia, tarsus, code read up- or downwards), name and address (including e-mail) of the observers and all other interesting information. Details on the types of rings used by the different projects can be found on the enclosed fact-sheet. All sightings will be returned with a life history of the bird, giving the ringing data and all other sightings.
We thank you for all the past and future efforts in the search of these birds. With kind regards, on behalf of all the Mediterranean Gull colour-ringing coordinators,
Renaud FLAMANT, 23 rue de l'Orme / Olmstraat, B-1040 Brussels,
Belgium. tel./fax : +32 (0)2 734.73.55 , e-mail : Renaud.Flamant@skynet.be
MEDITERRANEAN GULL Larus melanocephalus INFORMATION 1999
1. Codes of colour rings of Mediterranean Gulls.
Up to now, the following codes have been used on the colour rings :
white :
- digit-digit-letter (until 1999) e.g. : 36A
- digit-digit-letter and a country-code horizontally engraved 1x (always letter 'E') (until 1998) e.g. : E 65Y
- digit-letter-letter (from 1999 onwards) e.g. : 4AV
black :
- digit-digit-digit and a country-code horizontally engraved 1x (always letter 'U') (only in 1994) e.g. : U 310
- digit-letter-digit (from 1998 onwards) e.g. : 1A1
- digit-digit-letter (from 1999 onwards) e.g. : 67C
green :
- letter-digit-digit (used in France until 1996) (letter is 'C' or 'J') e.g. : J10
- digit-digit-digit and a country-code horizontally engraved 1x (always letter 'R') (used in France until 1998) e.g. : R 222
- A-digit-digit (used in France since 1998) e.g. : A21
- letter-digit-letter (used in Germany from 1999 onwards) e.g. : A1A
yellow :
- digit-digit-P e.g. : 13P
sky-blue :
- R-digit-digit (until 1998) (light blue is replaced by green from 1999 onwards) e.g. : R33
dark-blue :
- letter-digit-digit e.g. : S26
- I-letter-letter-letter e.g. : IAFV
red :
- digit-digit-digit and a country-code horizontally engraved 1x (always letter 'H') (from 1994 up to 1997) e.g. : H 444
- HA-digit-digit (1998) e.g. : HA23
- digit-A-digit (1998) e.g. : 7A8
- digit-digit-A (1998) e.g. : 89A
- E-digit-digit (from 1999 onwards) e.g. : E46
- digit-E-digit (from 1999 onwards) e.g. : 5E3
- digit-digit-E (from 2000 onwards) e.g. : 48E
2. Global list of the number of colour-ringed Mediterranean Gulls
Colour , Country , Chicks '99 , Breeding birds '99 , Birds outside colony '99 , Total number since start
White , Belgium , 67 , 64 , 30 , 645
The Netherlands , 84 , 34 , 0 , 1102
Green , France , 18 , 0 , 15 , 382
Light blue/Green , Germany , 22 , 0 , 0 , 113
Red , Hungary , 62 , 51 , 0 , 1114
Czech Republic , 2 , 0 , 0 , 14
Slovakia , 13 , 0 , 0 , 13
Dark blue , Italy , 281 , 0 , 20 , 1676
Yellow , United Kingdom , 0 , 0 , 12 , 32
Black , Ukraine , 992 , 0 , 0 , 1588
Greece , 118 , 0 , 0 , 264
Turkey , 107 , 0 , 0 , 411
Total : 1766 , 149 , 77 , 7341
3. National 'Med Gull' point of contact (unless stated in paragraph 3)
Belgium : Renaud FLAMANT (see above)
Czech Republic : Josef CHYTIL Biosphere Reserve Palava, Namesti 32, 692 01 Mikulov, Czech Republic. tel. : +420 625 510585 , fax : +420 625 511130 , e-mail : jchytil@palava.cz
France : Nicolas SADOUL Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, F-13200 Arles, France. tel. : +33 4 90.97.20.13 , fax : +33 4 90.97.20.19 , e-mail : sadoul@tour-du-valat.com
Greece : Vassilis GOUTNER Department of Zoology, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece. tel. : +30 31 998286 , fax : +30 31 998269 , e-mail : goutner@bio.auth.gr
Slovakia : Jan SVETLIK Eisnerova 15, 841 01 Bratislava, Slovakia. fax : +421 7 43425269 , e-mail : jansvetlik@yahoo.com
Turkey : Sühendan KARAUZ Underwater Research Society - SAD, P.K. 245 Yeniçehir 06443, Ankara, Turkey. tel. : +90 312 2405749 , fax : 2225140 , e-mail : karauz@surf.net.tr
Ukraine : Antonina RUDENKO Black Sea Reserve, Lermontov St. 1, Golaya Pristan, Kherson Region, Ukraine , fax : +380 553921004
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MEDITERRANEAN GULL Larus melanocephalus INFORMATION 1999
Dans le cadre de l'étude que je mène sur la Mouette mélanocéphale Larus melanocephalus, je vous adresse cette demande de collaboration. Je suis à la recherche de personnes qui pourraient consacrer deux ou trois sorties sur le terrain entre mars et début juillet 2000, à la recherche de Mouettes mélanocéphales. Les sites à prospecter sont principalement le Zwin, le port de Zeebruges et la zone portuaire d'Anvers. C'est surtout en fin d'après-midi, et jusqu'au coucher du soleil, quand les oiseaux viennent dormir dans les colonies et/ou dortoirs, que les mélanos sont les plus nombreuses. L'idéal est donc d'être sur le terrain deux heures avant le coucher du soleil. N'hésitez pas à me contacter si vous êtes amateur.
Si vous découvrez d'importantes concentrations de cette espèce au printemps prochain, contactez-moi LE PLUS VITE POSSIBLE via mail, téléphone ou fax. Cela me permet de ré-orienter mes propres recherches, ou celles de mes collaborateurs.
Si lors de vos vacances à l'étranger, vous découvrez des sites où cette espèce est observée, faites le moi savoir.
Comme vous le savez, la Wallonie n'a pas de mélanos nicheuses; cependant, il n'est pas exclu qu'un certain nombre de celles-ci passent inaperçues en visitant les colonies de Mouettes rieuses de Wallonie. La mélano étant un oiseau très mobile, tout est possible. En tenant compte du fait que les colonies de rieuses font office de point de rassemblement à la tombée de la nuit (aussi pour d'éventuelles mélanos de passage), qui est prêt à quelques séances d'observation d'une colonie de rieuse près de chez lui en mars-avril-mai?
Ci-joint quelques informations [anglais] concernant les activités de baguage coloré [liste projects] de la Mouette mélanocéphale.
Comme vous pouvez le constater sur le tableau [anglais] qui suit en bas de ce message, beaucoup de Mouettes mélanocéphales ont été munies d'une bague de couleur en 1999 ; elles vous attendent, vous et votre télescope, fières de porter leur toute nouvelle bague : 1217 noires, 301 bleues foncées, 279 blanches, 128 rouges, 65 vertes et 12 jaunes! Qu'attendez-vous?
Pourriez-vous prêter une attention toute particulière aux mélanos baguées lors de vos sorties ornithologiques ? Si vous en observez, notez le plus de détails possibles : date, lieu avec coordonnées géographiques, âge, position des bagues (couleur ET métallique, patte gauche, droite, tibia, tarse, code lu du haut vers le bas ou l'inverse), nom et adresse (e-mail inclus) des observateurs et toute autre information intéressante. Les détails concernant les types de bagues utilisées par les différents programmes sont mentionnés. En réponse à l'envoi de lectures de bagues, les cv des oiseaux observés vous seront envoyés, reprenant les données de baguage et toutes les autres observations de l'oiseau concerné.
Si vous êtes intéressés à vous joindre à une 'Med Gull mailing list', contactez Lyndon Kearsley via e-mail : kearsley@crosswinds.net
En espérant vous revoir bientôt sur le terrain. J'attends vos réactions/commentaires/propositions! Au nom de tous les coordinateurs de programmes de marquage coloré de la Mouette mélanocéphale
Renaud Flamant ,23 rue de l'Orme, B-1040 Bruxelles , Belgique.
tél./fax : +32 (0)2 734.73.55 , e-mail : Renaud.Flamant@skynet.be
Here follows a small report of the Mediterranean Gull colour ringing season in Greece, Turkey and Ukraine (black rings).
The following numbers have been colour ringed :
- Ukraine : 566 chicks, 91 breeding birds ; Turkey : 77 chicks ; Greece : 148 chicks
Possibly, some more birds have been ringed in the Azov Sea. All birds are wearing a metal ring and a black colour ring with a code consisting of three alphanumerical symbols. This year, the combination 'letter-cipher-letter' has been used too.
Including the year 2000 season, a total amount of 3145 black rings has been placed (UKR : 2245; TU : 488; GR : 412).
For all birdwatchers active on the Mediterranean coast (especially Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, France Morocco and Tunesia), may I ask you to keep a very sharp lookout on colour ringed Med Gulls. If you find big Med Gull concentrations somewhere, or even if you see colour ringed birds which could not be read, please report it. Very very few sightings come from the Mediterranean coast, except from the north of Italy. Keep it mind if you live there, or if you're on holiday there!
contact me by mail , all sightings of black rings have to be sent to me : Renaud.Flamant@skynet.be
[ Thanks to Ingrid Balzer for the German translation ]
Hier ist ein kleiner Bericht ueber die Beringungssaison in Griechenland, der Tuerkei und der Ukraine betreffend die Schwarzkopfmoewe (schwarze Ringe).
Die Anzahl der Voegel, die beringt wurden: Ukraine: 566 Kueken, 91 Brutvoegel ; Tuerkei: 77 Kueken ; Griechenland: 148 Kueken
Moeglicherweise sind am Azowschen Meer noch einige Voegel mehr beringt worden. Alle Voegel tragen einen Metallring und einen schwarzen Farbring mit einem Code, der aus drei alphanumerischen Symbolen besteht. In diesem Jahr ist auch die Kombination 'Buchstabe - Zahl - Buchstabe' benutzt worden. Einschliesslich der Saison 2000 sind insgesamt 3145 schwarze Ringe angebracht worden (davon in der Ukraine 2245, in der Tuerkei 488 und in Griechenland 412).
An alle Birdwatcher, die am Mittelmeer aktive Vogelbeobachtung betreiben (speziell Tuerkei, Griechenland, Italien, Spanien, Frankreich, Marokko und Tunesien) die Bitte: Haltet bitte besonders intensiv Ausschau nach beringten Schwarzkopfmoewen. Wenn ihr irgendwo grosse Konzentrationen von Schwarzkopfmoewen entdeckt oder wenn ihr farbberingte Voegel dieser Art seht, bei denen man aber den Ring nicht ablesen kann, informiert mich bitte darueber. Es kommen sehr, sehr wenige Beobachtungen von der Mittelmeerkueste (mit Ausnahme von Norditalien). Bitte denkt daran, wenn Ihr dort wohnt oder wenn Ihr dort Urlaub macht.
Ihr koennt mich auch per e-mail anschreiben. Alle Beobachtungen von Voegeln mit schwarzen Ringen sollten an mich geschickt werden: Renaud.Flamant@skynet.be
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