Monday 9 January 2012

Kitti heads South ...ish

It was a very pleasant surprise to receive an email from Colin Carter this weekend with this photo of a Kittiwake attached.

The bird is one that I ringed as a chick with Colin and Derek at the SLP Kittiwake wall in Lowestoft harbour on 27 June 2011 and was subsequently photographed on 06 January by Pim Wolf off the southern North Sea coast near Westkapelle in Zeeland, Holland. Colin informs me that this is the fourth foreign ringing recovery of one of his SLP Kittiwakes and the only CR resighting from a bird in flight.

2 CY (5) Kittiwake 
This recovery highlights the significance that colour ringing projects can have for enhancing the collection of data on species that aren't frequently retrapped.




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