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MickeyDredd
29-04-2006, 05:09 PM
Up at 4.30 this morning to set up the mist nets to try to capture this fairly rare beastie. Got a colour ringing scheme going for future ID.

Anyone know what it is? The dangerous :twisted: bill may give a clue!!
Falcon
29-04-2006, 05:10 PM
A crossbill
MickeyDredd
29-04-2006, 05:11 PM
A crossbill

No, a crossbill has a crossed bill, funnily enough:lol:
Falcon
29-04-2006, 05:11 PM
I was jesting!
Falcon
29-04-2006, 05:13 PM
A hawfinch then pmsl
MickeyDredd
29-04-2006, 05:17 PM
A hawfinch then pmsl

bloody spoilsport! Well done :supz:

Suppose I may as well close the thread now!!
Puddle
29-04-2006, 05:21 PM
100% Hawfinch
Red-Devil
29-04-2006, 05:24 PM
hawfinch it is
Jastreb
29-04-2006, 05:28 PM
It is batokljun on Croatian language.
MickeyDredd
29-04-2006, 05:37 PM
It is batokljun on Croatian language.

i'll remember that next time I'm in Croatia.....oh hang on I'll be there in3 months time :supz: :lol: :lol:
GriffMJ
29-04-2006, 05:57 PM
Up at 4.30 this morning to set up the mist nets to try to capture this fairly rare beastie. Got a colour ringing scheme going for future ID.

Anyone know what it is? The dangerous :twisted: bill may give a clue!!

That is a Hawfinch in its Summer Plumage and its a Male :)
MickeyDredd
29-04-2006, 06:26 PM
That is a Hawfinch in its Summer Plumage and its a Male :)

you are correct!

did you also know that the hawfinch is only 1/2 an inch longer than the greenfinch but weighs double what the greenie does.

they are big hardy b*ggers!!
GriffMJ
29-04-2006, 07:01 PM
you are correct!

did you also know that the hawfinch is only 1/2 an inch longer than the greenfinch but weighs double what the greenie does.

they are big hardy b*ggers!!

I do now :!: :D
Jastreb
30-04-2006, 04:46 PM
i'll remember that next time I'm in Croatia.....oh hang on I'll be there in3 months time :supz: :lol:
:supz::supz:cheers m8!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C ya soon!!!!!!!!!
Viktor
GregMik
30-04-2006, 06:39 PM
Up at 4.30 this morning to set up the mist nets to try to capture this fairly rare beastie. Got a colour ringing scheme going for future ID.

Anyone know what it is? The dangerous :twisted: bill may give a clue!!

MD,
Does the UK have a Gov't banding program? We do here in the US. It is called the Bird Banding Laboratory.

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/

Here is a site that does actual banding or ringing as you call it.

http://www.hawkridge.org/research/banding.html


Greg
Puddle
30-04-2006, 08:25 PM
MD,
Does the UK have a Gov't banding program? We do here in the US. It is called the Bird Banding Laboratory.

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/

Here is a site that does actual banding or ringing as you call it.

http://www.hawkridge.org/research/banding.html


Greg

Not to shore on ringing songbirds and bop But they go crazy about ringing stone curlew and the odd common curlew got two nests of each on one field which the curlew boys have marked do you get many in the U.S.
MickeyDredd
30-04-2006, 11:57 PM
Greg

There is a similar colour banding scheme in the UK, mainly for rarer species. There are different colour sequences to represent the specific year of banding.

General BTO (British trust for Ornathology) metal rings are normally fitted to birds of all species which are either netted (mist, cannon, etc) or rung as youngsters in the nest.

Rgds
Mike