Recoveries & Controls Maintained by Kevin Sayer

Details of birds recovered which are already ringed.

Key
Age when ringed.
This is given according to the EURING code. The figures do not represent years but are interpreted as follows:
1 nestling or chick not yet able to fly
2 fully grown, year of hatching quite unknown
3 definitely hatched during current calendar year
4 hatched before current calendar year, exact year unknown
5 definitely hatched during last calendar year
6 hatched before last calendar year of ringing, exact year unknown
7 definitely hatched two calendar years ago before ringing
8 hatched more than two calendar years before ringing
? unknown

Sex
M/F Male/Female

Condition on recovery
X found dead
XF found freshly dead or dying
XL found dead (not recent)
+ shot or intentionally killed by man
S sick or injured - not known to have been released
VV alive and probably healthy, ring or colour marks read in field
R caught and released by ringer
N caught and released but not by a ringer + breeding
/?/ condition on finding wholly unknown

Mute Swan Cygnus olor

This bird was ringd by Dave Stone during one of his Autumn visits to the area.

Grey Heron Ardea cinerea

Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta

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Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica

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Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa

Dunlin Calidris alpina

A bird returning to its breeding grounds was seen with not only with colour-rings
but also with a radio tag.

Sanderling Calidris alba

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Greenshank Tringa nebularia

Another colour-ringed bird from France seen locally. We are still waiting further details on this bird.

Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus

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A colour-ringed bird which was photographed by CHOG member Darren Hughes. It will be interesting to see if this bird repeats this pattern of commuting between Copenhagen and Christchurch Harbour. A 2000 Kms+ round-trip!

One of the pulli ringed at Ibsley Water. Unfortunately, found in a poor condition and taken into care where it died 2 days later.

Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus

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Another French colour-ringed Med Gull which was ringed as a pullus just to the West of Paris. Thanks to Alan for photographing it and contacting the French Ringers on our behalf.

Green Woodpecker Picus viridis

Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major

Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba/yarrellii

Confirmed by the original ringer as being of the race alba or 'White Wagtail'. Our second controlled Pied Wagtail from the same site this year. Co-incidentally, another Pied Wagtail of the yarrellii race was re-trapped at nearby Abbotsbury on 12 Oct 2009 which had been originally ringed at Dundee on 29 Sept 2009 also. A significant movement therefore of wagtails from Scotland to the south coast.

A possible Icelandic breeder on its way back? A fair distance from its original ringing location so could be of the continental race alba or 'White Wagtail'. This bird was identified by its coloured rings.

Song Thrush Turdus philomelos

Not strictly in CHOG land, but near enough! A good control nonetheless.
Apparently, a cat got it! NB We have had a Med Gull from here too - see above.

Blackbird Turdus merula

This male has not been re-trapped since its first ringing almost exactly 5 years previously.

Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla

Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti

Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus

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This recovery even got a mention on the BTO Ringers' Blog. It was trapped by a group of Spanish Ringers working there. Coincidentally,another Sedge Warbler also ringed on 2 Aug 2009 at Titchfield Haven was trapped there as well.

This recovery ocurred only 8 Kms from the previous recovery in Senegal in Jan 2010.

You wait ages for one of your "sedgies" to turn-up at one of the south-coast's premier ringing sites - and then 3 turn-up all at once! We have since learnt that the above bird susequently flew onto Mauretania - see below.

The above 2 recoveries are the 5th & 6th UK Ringed Sedge Warblers to turn-up in Mauritania. By co-incidence, this bird was also recovered at Icklesham in East Sussex on its outward migration.

The above is the 6th UK Ringed Sedge Warbler to go to Luxembourg.

Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus

These last two are examples of the movements made along the south coast, in either direction, prior to the Channel crossing.

Tring is the former home of the BTO & Wilstone Reservoir is where I started as a Trainee Ringer a long time ago!

A bird re-trapped at it's probable natal site by the same group of Ringers who caught it originally! It is now a breeding female.

This time a Reed Warbler of ours went to Seville!

Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita

Only our fourth-ever recovery of a Chiffchaff.

Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica

Only the 7th record of a British ringed Swallow turning up in The Congo and the 4th swallow recovery by CHRS. I suspect this bird was one of the pair that bred in the Barn in 2008.

Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus

With the help of Alan Hayden's camera and the BTO's computer sofware we managed to read the metal ring in the field. A locally-bred bird then which could still be in the area.

Lesser Redpoll Carduelis cabaret

My "guess" on the above is that the bird returned to its natal area after it decided to over-winter in our neck-of-the-woods. This would be inline with The BTO's Migration Atlas.

Greenfinch Carduelis chloris

This bird was found concussed having been hit by a car. Subsequently taken into care and released the following day.

Unfortunately, this bird was found dying from endo-parasites.

Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus