Sacred Ibis

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01420 - Sacred Ibis - Threskiornis aethiopicus

Yellow ring with black code (2 letters).

Instituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica, INFS, via Ca' Fornacetta 9, 40064 Ozzano Emilia BO - Italy.

fax: +39-51-79.66.28.

e-mail: nicola.baccetti@infs.it

note 1 : flying young birds are ringed in NW Italy by Alessandro Re and his colleagues of the local Regional Park since 2004 [code AA-AZ) and nestlings by Stefano Volponi in the Po-Delta since 2007 (code BA-BZ).

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Combination of rings and KLF-ring.

Mr. Schneider, Metelener Heide Bird Sanctuary, Muenster, North Germany.

tel.: +49-(0)251.235.750 or tel.: +49-(0)2556.300.

e-mail: waldrapp@uni-muenster.de

note 1: twelve young Ibises escaped from the Metelener Heide Bird Sanctuary in the Muenster-area, Germany. These birds have been hand-raised by the Austrian biologist Mr. A. Schneider [Konrad-Lorenz-Forschungsstelle für Ethologie, Oberösterreich] and are part of a study to determine methods and success of food search. The birds were part of a free-flight experiment.

note 2: rings on the left leg are the individual markers and on the right leg the KLF-ring has the phone number and the e-mail of the research center.

note 3: some ring-details [first left, then right] on the birds with their name. Lili: white, KLF-yellow ; Lotte: white over black, KLF-yellow ; Suleika: dark-blue, KLF-yellow ; Mephisto: light-blue, KLW-yellow ; Werther: orange, KLF-yellow ; Hatem: yellow, KLF-black ; Hopi: yellow over light-blue, KLF-black and 5 juv. without rings.

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Combination (see below) of 2 up to 4 small (1cm. high) rings.

Loïc Marion, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Université de Rennes I, Laboratoire d'Evolution des Systèmes Naturls et Modifiés, Avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.

e-mail: Loic.Marion@univ-rennes1.fr

note 1: used colours are : red, orange, yellow, white, dark-green, light-green, dark-blue.

note 2: 5 different types of combinations are used. AA/Am (2 rings on left leg, 1 ring over metal ring on right leg) ; AA/m ; m/AA ; A/Aam ; AAA/m ; m/AAA ; AAm/AA or AA/Aam.

note 3: some 80 to 180 birds are yearly ringed.

note 4: birds are ringed at the Grand-Lieu Lake, Loire-Atlantique, France, (47° 06' N, 001° 40' W) and in Brière.

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Red ring (on left tibia) and metal ring( on right tibia).

Rondevlei Nature Reserve, South Africa.

http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/ronvlei_colring.htm

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