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Yesterday at Simrishamn:

Metal ring: Copenhagen ...4261906 Colour ring: Yellow V8X6.
Ringing dataSpecies: Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)Age:2y.
Wing:444 Date: 19-03-2008
Locality: Kildevældsparken, København, DK06 55.43N-012.34E
Ringer: Kjeld Tommy Pedersen, Mikkel Willemoes
Recovery data31-03-2008 Yellow V8X6 KILDEVÆLDSPARKEN KØBENHAVN
DK06 55.43N-012.34E Alive Colour ring read René Rantzau
Number of recoveries: 1

Cheers!

Here is the same bird as 2cy 26.03.2008. kildevældsparken .

Quite interesting! I am a little bit surprised about the misidentification by the ringer, because I know Kjeld is qualified in large gulls. He knews their differences (cach vs. mich) rather than all westeuropean gull-maniacs !

it's a mistake that the ringdata says argentatus . Kjeld know it's a cachinnans . The bird had been stayning in the park for a couple of month before kjeld was able to capture it by hand .

Well, it´s not even a mistake, I guess. I was told that Kjeld have used his HEGU and also LBBG project rings for the occasional Caspian gull.

/Hans

The yellow rings has been used many years mainly for HG and small numbers of LBBG , but some CACH and YLG has also been ringed with yellow rings . kjeld are now using blue rings . These are used mainly for LBBG , but also for HG ,CACH, YLG . Here is a ringed cachinnans with blue ring .

this last one has a very short primary projection! otherwise looks ok.

What is the date of the picture?

Theo

Any info on ringing?

The photo above was taken 15.11.2009 rødvig havn in denmark , same date it was ringed by kjeld.t.pedersen . Here are some more photos from denmark from the same bird http://www.fugleognatur.dk/gallery.asp? ... &ID=114339 + voice recording of this one and a second bird http://www.xeno-canto.org/40293