Colour Ringing
Ornithologist Tony Cross has been working with volunteers over the past decade to colour ring curlews at their pre-breeding roosting site at Dolydd Hafren.
Over a hundred birds have now been ringed. Charting the whereabouts of these birds helps to build up a better national picture of curlew behaviour and an understanding of their needs. Many of these colour ringed curlews are breeding in the scheme area.
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Satellite Tagging
Whilst colour ringing, Tony and David managed to successfully fit satellite tags to two female birds. Tags kindly donated by Ecology Matters. We have named our tagged birds Dolly and Fran. Dolly has made her way up to the Forest of Bowland AONB where the RSPB have run a wader project since 2001. The local project officer spied her with a mate nesting in 2016, but soon afterwards we had firm reports of her on the coast of Counties Waterford and Wexford in Southern Ireland, which means that it is likely that her nest failed. She is back again this year nesting in the almost identical place.
Fran was last spotted around Hay on Wye in 2016 but has gone quiet and we have not heard more.
Look for our news to see updates. Follow these links for more information:
Blog ‘Ruffled Feathers’ by Tony Cross
Forest of Bowland RSPB website
