Black-headed Gull with a metal and colour-ring fitted ready to be released.

After 8 years & 400 Black-headed Gulls caught & ringed at Center Parcs Sherwood, on Saturday we had our first ever control. Not got the full details yet but we do know it was ringed in June 2003 making it 22 years old.

Ringed under BTO licence.

#ornithology #birdringing #gulls #colourringing

Two small bites to thumb

Black headed gulls flying around

The audacity 😆

I'm always saying one of the perks of working with Black-headed gulls is they bite but they don't hurt 😱

Had some grumpy ones this morning 😅

#conservation #birds #gulls #birdringing #colourringing #nature #science

Alarm schedule on a phone set to 4.10am, 4.15am and 4.40am

Yuk!

I really got used to those summer holiday lie-ins!

Looks like I'm out tomorrow 😆 Black-Headed Gull colouring ringing season is back! 💕

And on that note, I'm going to sleep 💤

#gull #ringing #colourringing #conservation #birds #science #biology

Pair of colour-ringed Greylag geese with thie new goslings

Proud parents U416 ♂️ & U580 ♀️ (ringed under licence as part of @theroyalparks.bsky.social Waterbird Montoring Project) with their new family. One of a number of pairs of #GreylagGeese seen with young in #TheRegentsPark today. #ringing #colourringing #Londonbirds #geese

Any thoughts from more experienced wader ring readers - seems to match the Norwegian Barwit project on IWSG register, but not listed on www.ringmerking.no/cr/?
Red cr on left tib, engraved flag YN(EEH) on right tib.

@waderstudy.bsky.social @wadertales.bsky.social #waders #colourringing

This the 300th Black-headed Gull to be colour-ringed at Center Parcs Sherwood since the project started in 2018. Also had the 50th bird of this season and what is probably a day record of 13 birds ringed. Not a bad day. #ornithology #birds #birdringing #colourringing #blackheadedgulls

This wonderful moment when you reach an #Eagle nest - in the middle of Durban, South Africa #urbanecology #raptorresearch. We ringed this beautiful female African Crowned Eagle "K6" (green) #ornithology #ColourRinging