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Following on from an earlier posts about 'blue 2369', this is a great example of the same staging site being used pre- & post-breeding by one of the c/r Black-headed Gulls we ringed @theroyalparks.bsky.social last winter. Safe trip back to London! 📷Maarten Hotting. #londonbirds #gulls #birdringing
July 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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A first for @theroyalparks.bsky.social waterbird monitoring project. One of our #blackheadedgulls (blue 2369 -ringed in December '24) was recorded on a camera trap! And even better is that it was on a small island in the Ijsselmeer (Netherlands). 📸courtesy of @maartenhotting.bsky.social.
#ringing
May 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Strandplevieren op Marker Wadden

Strandplevieren kennen we als strandbroeder op o.a. de Waddeneilanden. Met de nieuw opgespoten eilanden van Marker Wadden is tijdelijk geschikt broedgebied ontstaan in het zoetwatermilieu van het IJsselmeergebied. In Limosa een mooi artikel daarover.

Lees Limosa!
March 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Now that black-tailed #godwits during northward #migration stage in Portugal & Spain, observers of www.birdeyes.org make efforts to record the individuals present. On 5 Feb Maarten Hotting identified a godwit metal-ringed as chick on 18 June 2001 in Friesland. At 24yr it is now an experienced elder!
February 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM