Bird Colour Ringing Schemes

English species name OR Species name (scientific) Colour-ring type Colour-ring colour Colour-ring code First letter/number (of the c-ring). The IWSG Colour-mark Register is the definitive database of all colour-marking schemes for waders in Europe and the East Atlantic flyway. The Register has two main purposes: to ensure that colour.

When the Ringing Scheme began over 100 years ago, the primary aim was to about birds' movements. Attaching a uniquely coded metal ring to a bird's leg allows the individual to be identified if encountered at a later date, revealing the distance, direction and duration of travel. Newsletter 2025 report a bird Monitoring is the foundation of effective conservation.

Collecting data on movements, survival and other factors provides conservationists with the information needed to be able to determine the conservation requirements of individual species and populations. Colour Ringing The purpose of this page is to make it easy for observers to report information on colour-ringed birds. After registering as a user, you can report the colour code you have seen and immediately receive data on where the bird has been ringed and observed before.

to show all projects and information on reporting. Birds freely cross political boundaries and so international cooperation is vital for research and conservation. EURING promotes international collaboration on all aspects of scientific bird ringing, particularly in Europe and along the Eurasian African flyway.

Our work includes collaborative research, data sharing and scientific meetings. Turnstone The group marks Turnstone with a black scheme marker ring on the left tibia and two colour rings on the left tarsus (= lower leg) and two colour rings on the right tarsus. European colour-ring Birding is supported by The Norwegian Bird Ringing Centre, EURING and SOVON.

--- --- --- Dear ringer, with now >6350 cr-projects, if an update of your project is needed, do please mention - apart from the information - also the exact place [the node, the page] of your project on the cr. For a ringing office who wish to find all schemes on the Register for their country click on the Filter for country and follow the same procedure. If you have seen a colour-marked wader, you can use multiple filters to search for the scheme the bird may originate from.

For example first filter for the species as described above. When the Ringing Scheme began over 100 years ago, the primary aim was to about birds' movements; attaching a uniquely coded metal ring to a bird's leg allows the individual to be identified if encountered at a later date, revealing the distance, direction and duration of travel. This technique also permits the calculation of 'vital' rates (survival and productivity), the.