Having a snooze after crossing The English Channel? Here is 236N in The Netherlands 🇳🇱, one of 3 of our birds reported from Groninggen in the last couple of days

They are heading home! Our colour-marked Whooper Swans are migrating back to Iceland, please keep an eye out for our colour-marked birds. White leg rings can be reported to waterbirdcolourmarking.org/report-a-bird-…

Our wandering Barnacle Geese (originally ringed in North Yorkshire) are touring Germany! First seen close to the Austrian border in January, they are now in Lower Saxony. Heading home? 🤗

We've already had 34 Black-headed Gulls reported across Europe this breeding season, from 8 countries 🇵🇱🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮🇷🇺🇩🇪🇳🇱🇩🇰 Sightings map now online - waterbirdcolourmarking.org/sightings-bh/

Looking smart in the sunshine is Black-headed Gull 2T74, photographed by Robert Wikstrand in Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴 a few days ago (also seen there in 2022 and 2023). The bird winters, and was ringed in Cumbria, UK 🇬🇧

Today, we took a batch of darvic to the engravers to start making up this years Whooper Swan rings. Another 500 being made for deployment in #Iceland this summer 😊

Another batch of Black-headed Gulls reported across Europe including Norway 🇳🇴, Germany 🇩🇪 and this bird, 2V10 seen in The Netherlands 🇳🇱 Check out the map here ➡️ waterbirdcolourmarking.org/sightings-bh/

Round yer mates up... for a paddle on the water then catch 600 geese! Nicely topping up our marked population. Pretty cool weekend! Though feeling it now... #BirdRinging

We're interested in knowing of any decent sized moulting flocks of Mandarin. Please keep an eye out and let Will Smith / me know know...

When we started our colour-marking study of the UK's naturalised Barnacle Goose population, we didn't think they would roam as much as they have! Watch till the end...

400 flat engraved darvics for our Waterbird Colour-marking Group Whooper Swan expedition up to #Iceland 🇮🇸 in a few weeks. I just need a few days in front of the stove to make them up 🔥

Southport-ringed BHG 227L is back in Roundhay Park, Leeds, today having last being seen here on 18th March 2024 Presumably it is on its way back to Southport. Is anyone there to watch out for it? waterbirdcolourmarking.org #Chroicocephalus #ridibundus #NWBHGs ⁦Waterbird Colour-marking Group⁩

What do you call a North Yorkshire breeding Barnacle Goose in Italy?..... Lost! Very lost! 🇮🇹

The team has been on the road visiting North Yorkshire, Cumbria & Perth & Kinross for Barnacle goose ringing. In total, 415 geese were rounded up & colour-marked as part of work to better understand the movements & survival of the UK's naturalised Barnacle goose population.

We're spending today at the stove as we make up & mould darvic rings ahead of our Whooper Swan expedition to #Iceland next week!

Another day on board the zodiac with our special passengers! All caught for Waterbird Colour-marking Group colour-ringing 💫

Another successful expedition to #Iceland comes to an end! Over 200 Whooper Swans caught & colour-marked for ongoing studies & many GPS tags deployed. Thank you to Sverrir Thorstensen, Ketill Þor & the many farmers who have hosted & helped us 💫

Since 2023 we've caught & colour-marked nearly 600 Whooper Swans & we need your help to find them! 🧐 Please check any flocks you may see & let us know what you find...

Ok! Come on let's follow this lot to where they're sleeping tonight... A thread🧵 #Ornithology 1/7

The Whoopers are starting to move and will soon be back on their Icelandic breeding grounds! Since Waterbird Colour-marking Group started ringing Whoopers in 2023, we've tagged >600 inds. and gathered >750 sightings. Please keep an eye out and continue to report any sightings to us as they leave!