Colour Ring and Colour Mark Recovery Form

How long has the bird been dead?

Fresh dead (less than 1 week)

Long dead (more than 1 week)

Do not know

What happened to the bird? (e.g. caught by cat, hit by car, oiled on beach etc.)

If other please describe the scheme address that is on the ring


What happened to the bird? (e.g. entered house, tangled in garden netting, stunned hitting window - later released etc.)


Please give further details of the circumstances if you can (e.g. ring only found in drawer, found by metal detector)

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Almost all colour-marked birds can be traced via the website www.cr-birding.org
Please try to find the marker of the bird you have seen by clicking on the link above. You can then contact the marker direct.

If you cannot trace the marker of the bird you have seen via www.cr-birding.org, please complete details on the form below.

Colour Ring and Colour Mark Recovery Form

Please fill in the form below as completely as possible. If you need any help, please click on the help links. If you are having any difficulties, please email colourringing@bto.org with details. Note some fields are mandatory ( * )

* Do not use this form if you are a ringer, or are reporting a racing pigeon or a metal ring number

Your details

Please tell us as much as you can about yourself. This is so that we can send you details of where and when the bird was ringed.

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Full name

Address 1

Address 2

Address 3

Address 4

Postcode/Zip code

Country *

E-mail

Confirm e-mail if entered above

About the bird and ring

Please tell us as much as you can about the bird and ring

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Please tell us as much as you can about the bird and colour marks on the bird, noting their relative positions and colours by describing them below. If you have found a metal ring, please click here.

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If the bird had a single coloured ring or wing tag with numbers and letters, please tell us the details here. Remember to tell us the colour of the ring and the colour of the lettering.

Nasal saddle (colour and code)
Neck collar (colour and code)
Left wing tag (colour and code)	Right wing tag (colour and code)
Leg ring (colour and code)

If the bird had a combination of coloured rings and/or leg flags, please tell us the details here. If there was more than one ring in any position on the leg, please note the order of the rings from top to bottom, including the position of the metal ring. You can enter details of several colour marks in each position.

NB. Please note the position of the metal ring as part of the combination. Please also note if you couldn't see any part of the leg (i.e. the bird in standing in water)


Left above knee		Right above knee
Left below knee		Right below knee



Type of bird
Sex of bird (if known)	Male Female Do not know
Age of bird (if known)

Was the bird - *	Dead Alive Do not know

Where and when

Please tell us where and when you found the bird or ring

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Country *

County/province

Location *

click here to add home location

Location extra

Coordinates/grid reference

Date (dd/mm/yyyy) *

Date (approx) *

Further Information

Please use this space for any other information that may be important or useful

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Please enter any further remarks that you may like to add that will assist in the processing of the ring recovery
		(There is a 1000 character limit, so please be brief)

I agree that my personal details as given on this form may be passed to the originating Ringing Scheme and to the Ringer of the bird. These details will not be provided to any other parties.


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