Delta de l' Ebre, Spain - reprise for colour ringed birds 03 March 2014

So it's nearly 6 months since our stint at the ringing station but some interesting emails received over the weekend provided the perfect excuse to refer back to that time. While there, we did our best to record the codes on darvic rings seen on a couple of Audouin's Gulls and several Glossy Ibis. This self set task brought its own difficulties, firstly in that all birds are nervous in the extreme due to regular and extensive hunting (in so much as just stopping a vehicle can be sufficient cause for entire flocks to take to the air) and secondly because the rice paddyfields although great for all manner of food for birds are filled with a thick, gloopy ooze that definitely obscures the markings and, we suspected probably stains the plastic as there were several shades of buff to ochre rings that we thought may have been white when originally fitted.


Our records are all at Canal Vell.

Audouin's Gull 

     

 Audouin's Gull on rehabilitation cage

ALXS PVC Ring White Black (Niger). Ringed 24/06/2003 in the Ebro Delta.

seen on
11/08/2010 Playa de Matalascanas (Huelva)
01/08/2011 Costa Donana (Huelva)
10/08/2013 Salinas Decerrillos (Almeria)
seen by us on
26/10/2013 Canal Vell, Tarragona

AY2F PVC Ring White Black (Niger) ringed on 17/6/2007

seen by us on
26/10/2013 Canal Vell, Tarragonad 

Glossy Ibis

All of the following are on white PVC although the actual colour is just discernable in the following image.

Feeding Glossy Ibises, two on the right with darvics

CAN  ringed on 19/05/2008 in the Donana National Park, Spain.

seen on
15/11/2010 & 21/11/2010 Brazo del Este Sevilla

seen by us on
30/10/2013 Canal Vell, Tarragona

TAX ringed on 18/05/2010 in the Donana National Park, Spain.

seen on
18/03/2012 Carmargue, FRANCE

seen by us on
30/10/2013 Canal Vell, Tarragona

 Reports for Glossy Ibis TAX

RV3  ringed on 27/05/2010in the Carmargue FRANCE

seen on
04/06/2010 Buisson Gros-Marais, Petit Carmargue, FRANCE

20/03/2011 Els Montells Tarragona

seen by us on seen by us on
30/10/2013 Canal Vell, Tarragona

RV9 ringed on 27/05/2010 in the Carmargue, FRANCE.

seen on
31/05/2010 Buisson Gros-Marais, Petit Carmargue, FRANCE

04/06/2010 Buisson Gros-Marais, Petit Carmargue, FRANCE

seen by us on
30/10/2013 Canal Vell, Tarragona

00WF ringed on 17/05/2011 in the Carmargue, FRANCE.

seen by us on seen by us on
30/10/2013 at Canal Vell, Tarragona

018H ringed on 24/05/2011in the Carmargue, FRANCE. 

seen on
01/11/2013 at Canal Vell Tarragona

seen by us on
30/10/2013 at Canal Vell, Tarragona

X27 ringed on 12/05/2011in the Carmargue, FRANCE. 

seen on
29/02/12 Montilles de Capettes, Petite Camargue, FRANCE

seen by us on
01/11/2013 Canal Vell, Tarragona

0H3C ringed on 25/05/12 in the Carmargue, FRANCE. 

seen by us on
01/11/2013 at Canal Vell, Tarragona

OHH8 ringed on 25/05/12 in the Carmargue, FRANCE. 

seen by us on
30/10/2013 at Canal Vell, Tarragona

There is still RT15 outstanding and we believe this bird may have been ringed in Italy. It's possible that the ring were misread but the search continues.