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

Sanderling Calidris alba

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Greenshank Tringa nebularia

Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus

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Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus

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Green Woodpecker Picus viridis

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

This French site is a few kilometres inland from Le Havre. This is our 18th Sedge Warbler recovery to France.

There have been less than 20 BTO-ringed Sedge Warblers recovered in Spain.

Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus

This is an example of the movements made along the south coast, in either direction, prior to the Channel crossing.

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.

Greenfinch Carduelis chloris