Monday, 22 October 2012

Curlew

In spite of helping catch shore birds on the Solent for some 14 years a Curlew has always evaded me.
So on my first outing this autumn the good news is we caught 2! I extracted the first out of the cannon net and was amazed to find it already had a ring - and not just any ring - a Belgium one - so a foreign control (see photo). So after recording the ring details we added colour rings so it can be readily identified again in the field, and then released it.







Theres a short video of it flying off here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5MA1eDb5Vk


The other bird was unringed and so I finally got my ringing tick!



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