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A ringed robin - 2008/02/23 19:18 I was surprised to find that a robin I photographed in a wood near Lancaster turned out to have been ringed (around its leg).

Why, and who, is likely to ring a robin and what would be hoped to be gained ? Robins don't migrate (do they ?)so what information would be gleaned fom the ringing ?
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Re:A ringed robin - 2008/02/24 21:51 the robin will be ringed so the people who ringed it will be able to find out how old it lives to , if it stays in the same area and some robins do migrate . have you ever noticed that there is more robins in the winter ? it could be a winter migrant
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Re:A ringed robin - 2008/02/26 03:10 A lot of the British breeding Robins migrate south and over to the continent in winter and are replaced by birds mainly from Scandinavia and northern europe. The bird will either have been ringed at a known migration point or at a Constant Effort Site where a local ringer will concentrate on year round to establish resident bird and movement patterns of a particular area

Cheers, John take only photographs, leave only footprints ...
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