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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.
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 ...
Bird codes, also known as banding codes or alpha codes, are four-letter abbreviations for bird names used by bird banders, ornithologists, and birdwatchers in North and Central America. The codes are written in capital letters, and look like, e.g., MODO for mourning dove. There are two very similar systems of these codes currently in use, one ...
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.
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 ...
Below is a list of U.S. state birds as designated by each state 's, district's or territory's government. The selection of state birds began with Kentucky adopting the northern cardinal in 1926. It continued when the legislatures for Alabama, Florida, Maine, Missouri, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming selected their state birds after a campaign was ...
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 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 ...