Recent recoveries

This post is to summarise some of the recoveries of ringed birds over the course of 2024.

One of our redwings ringed at Trowell in December 2022 was recaught in Tauvo, Finland in
September 2023. This is a distance of 1973 km.

A Blue Tit initially ringed by Sorby Breck Ringing Group near Longshaw, Derbyshire, has been
recovered twice by us in Longford, Derbyshire. At over 600 days and 41 km between ringing and
recapturing, this Blue Tit has travelled quite a distance for usually sedentary birds.

The group’s Goldfinch colour-ringing project had its first success. A Goldfinch was identified by the
unique colour ring code by a member of the public just 1km from where it was ringed in Carlton,
Nottinghamshire.

A Reed Warbler from Skylarks in August was recovered by Titchfield Haven Ringing Group in
Hampshire, having travelled 237 km in just 12 days.

During the CES at Attenborough, we retrapped a Reed Warbler, which had been ringed last August at Stanford Reservoir in Northamptonshire.

A Chiffchaff ringed at Skylarks Nature Reserve in July 2024 was recaught in Sandwich, Kent two months later.

A Garden Warbler ringed in Icklesham, Sussex in August 2023 was recaught by us at Skylarks in July. 

Sand Martin ringed as a chick in Rutland in 2022 was found dead at the Sand Martin colony at
Attenborough in May 2024.

A Cormorant that was colour-ringed in the nest in April 2019 was resighted in August of this year,
back at Attenborough Nature Reserve. Cormorants can move around the country extensively, but
tend to frequent familiar sites as they travel.

Two Black-headed Gulls have been resighted at Trent Bridge by the group, one in February and one
in March. One was ringed in Frognerkilen, Norway in August 2019, and the other in Kalvia, Finland in 2002.

Also resighted at Trent Bridge in February was a Mute Swan, which had been ringed in October 2022 in Manchester by the Loganhurst Ringing Partnership.

A brood of four Peregrine chicks were colour ringed near Langford, Nottinghamshire this May. In
July, one of them was identified sitting on a pylon near Newark, a 12km distance.

Josh

Colour-ringing a Peregrine chick