Teesmouth Bird Club

Bar-tailed Godwits (x7) - one colour ringed and Twite (x50) at the South Gare. I cannot find the reference to the Godwit on CR-Birding. Help needed.

The Norwegian Bar-Tailed Godwit- project,
c/o Kjell Mork Soot,

                            Hareid, Norway 20.01.2018                               
Rob Young,
Marske-by-the-sea,
England / UK.
(Email:rob.w.young@sky.com)



Thank you very much for taking the time to report to us details of the sighting of a colour ringed Bar-Tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica).
This project is a collaboration between  Giske Ornithologiocal Station and Male OS  (both stations run by Sunnmøre Ringing Group), Revtangen Ornithologiocal Station  and Jomfruland  Bird Station.  Information about the bird and its movement is given below:

Ring no : Stavanger 7218378
Yellow flag  NAN ( Left tarsus :  metal .  Left tibia red colour ring. Right tibia yellow  flag  engraved with three black letters NAN).    :LAR:LBM:RAYN(NAN)F
Age/sex/ biometric:  1K (hatched 2017). Wing: 208 mm .  Weight: 198 g.
Ringing date: 06.09.2017, 14  hrs.  (Observed at same locality 09.09 + 10.09.2017-Alf Tore Mjøs).
Ringing place: Revtangen (58*45'11''N-005*29'11''E)  Klepp, Rogaland, Norway.
Remarks: Caught in mist net. On migration.
Ringer: Alf Tore Mjøs / Revtangen OS.




Finding date: 01.01.2018, 15:01 hrs.
Observed : South Gare (54*36'N-001*30'W) Tees Estuary,  Cleveland, ENGLAND / UK
Distance : 609 km SW .  Direction: 224  deg. Time: 0 -3-26 (3 months-26 days after ringing).
Remarks:  Photodocumented.
Observed   by: Rob Young, (Email:rob.w.young@sky.com).

Thank you very much for the information!


If you notice any errors in the information, please inform us about your corrections.

This information will be sent to Ringing Centre, Stavanger Museum, Norway and  Ringing Centre, Tring/London, UK.

We are colour ringing waders and passerines in Norway and at Svalbard. I will mention the projects here:

Colourringing in Norway:
Sunnmøre Ringing Group has been colour ringing the species mentioned below for some years.

A good find.

It's a scheme by K M Soot from Norway.

Rings a lot at Spitsbergen - http://cr-birding.org/node/3917

Send him an email. He gets back to you pretty quickly usually with a wealth of information.

History came back from Kjell after some hiccups. There also was an error in CR-Birding.

Thanks Ian, I finally got the message from Kjell and it is included at the front of this posting.