Newsletter / Blog
2011-12-08 Colour-ringed Purple Sandpipers - Request for sightings this winter.
For the last
three years, Purple Sandpipers – Calidris maritime - have been colour-ringed at two different
locations on Spitsbergen, an Arctic Ocean island north of Norway lying at
a latitude of 78°N. The team is very interested in hearing from birders in the UK and other countries in Western
Europe who might be lucky enough to come across one of the
colour-ringed birds. The aim of this project is to try to find out where the
Purple Sandpipers breeding on Spitsbergen
spend their winters.
They have all
been ringed with one metal ring, one colour-ring above the metal ring, and a
plastic flag with a three-letter combination on the opposite leg. |