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Starling with leg tags

Hou1ie · 2014-11-05 10:30:04

Just saw a starling in my garden at the bird feeder that had a green tag on one leg and a red tag on the other. Was wondering what gives.....

05-11-2014 10:30am

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Hou1ie

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Just saw a starling in my garden at the bird feeder that had a green tag on one leg and a red tag on the other. Was wondering what gives.....

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#2 05-11-2014 11:28am

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It is common to colour ring many birds, including starlings. It help track movement, age etc.

You can report the location and colour combination to the BTO.

There is a link on this page.
http://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/ringing/ringing-scheme

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#3 05-11-2014 11:47am

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You might find someone specific to email here either: http://www.cr-birding.org/

It's the website for colour-ringing projects in Europe - you might have to fill out a few different fields to get to the correct project, but you should get a quicker response I'd imagine!

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