New website

Welcome to the new Wash Wader Ringing Group website. We are in the process of migrating to a new content managed website which should give some rather exciting new features such as running capture totals for the year and altered navigation. Have a look round and provide any feedback to webmaster@wwrg.org.uk. Currently not all content has been copied over while some parts of developed however it will occur over the coming weeks.

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About the Wash Wader Ringing Group

The Group operates with cannon nets and mist nets, around the shores of The Wash in both Norfolk and Lincolnshire, with the main aim of providing a better understand of the waders (shorebirds) using the Wash. See the link scientific aims for more details.

February 10th - 12th 2012

Friday 10th

NAC and SLD suffered various vehicular set-backs in getting to the sites for recces. NAC's car mechanisms failed such that he could not exceed 40 mph, while SLD encountered a rather nasty patch of icy road before Sedgeford and had to take a long way around. Once on site, the problems were not over, as SLD came off worst in an encounter with a large snow drift. However, NAC's assistance allowed them to press on with surveying the catching prospects.

2010 highlights

The following reports highlight some of the more interesting and unusual controls (birds ringed elsewhere and caught on The Wash) and recoveries (birds ringed on The Wash and found elsewhere... sometimes in unusual circumstances) during the year. It is only by piecing together all the reports that have been received over the years that a fuller picture of migration patterns can be established.

Oystercatcher

Colour ringed Bar Tailed Godwit seen in Mauritania

On the 30th September 2011 a juvenile Bar-tailed Godwit was colour ringed on Terrington Marsh during a mistnetting session. This bird was seen by a group of ornithologists working for NIOZ in Mauritania on the 19th November 2011.

This is the 3rd BTO ringed Bar-tailed Godwit to be recovered in Mauritania and the 12th to be recovered in Africa. All previous BTO ringed Bar-tailed Godwit recovered in Mauritania have been birds ringed by the WWRG.

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