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Bird ringing. A researcher uses banding pliers to attach a band to the leg of a common yellowthroat. A box of equipment for measuring, weighing and ringing birds. Bird ringing (UK) or bird banding (US) is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual identification.
Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen (27 August 1856 – 7 June 1921) was a Danish teacher and ornithologist. He was the first to employ bird ringing for scientific purposes. Mortensen was born in Jonstrup on the island of Zealand, Denmark. After completing secondary school in 1874 he began studies in theology and later in medicine and zoology at ...
The European Union for Bird Ringing (EURING) is the co-ordinating organisation for European bird ringing schemes. Ringed Black-headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus at the Tuileries in Paris on March 1, 2018. The ring number is CZP ET06049, where CZP is the EURING scheme code of the Czech Republic Prague ringing scheme, and ET06049 the unique ...
Headquarters. The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU. Region served. UK. Website. www.bto.org. Entrance to Thetford Nunnery, base of the BTO. The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is an organisation founded in 1932 for the study of birds in the British Isles. The Prince of Wales has been patron since October 2020.
Johannes Thienemann. Thienemann c. 1927. Johannes Wilhelm Thienemann (12 November 1863 – 12 April 1938) was a German ornithologist and pastor who established the Rossitten Bird Observatory, the world's first dedicated bird ringing station where he conducted research and popularized bird study.
Chris Mead. Christopher John Mead (1 May 1940 – 16 January 2003) was a popular British ornithologist, author and broadcaster, and an influential member of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). Mead was an avid lover of jazz, (watching) rugby, motor racing, local history and archaeology. In 1994, he stated his ornithological interests as ...
The Swiss Ornithological Institute was founded in 1924 as a ringing station for researching bird migration in the Alpine region. [2] Since then, it has grown from a one-man volunteer operation into an internationally recognised institute with more than 130 employees. In 1954, the Swiss Ornithological Institute was registered as an independent ...
The South African Bird Ringing Unit ( SAFRING) is based at the University of Cape Town and provides bird ringing services in South Africa and other African countries. This entails providing ringing equipment to qualified ringers, and curating all ringing data. SAFRING communicates with ringers and interested parties through annually publishing ...