HISTORIES OF FINNISH READ RINGED GULL

NEW at the end!

I started the read ringing of gulls in Finland in 1993 with the help Kjeld and Johnny Pedersen. Now we have got over 150'000 reads of them. (See statistics) The longest histories consist of over 300 day-reads. I represent here the histories of a Herring Gull (L. argentatus) and a Lesser Black-backed Gull (L. f. fuscus). The CK20-HG is very interesting in the way it has learned it's routes and sites. The life history of CKYE-LBBG is not very long, but it is interesting, because it has been photographed many times in Tarasteste dump (Tampere, Finland). There are some LBBGs which have seen many times on mirgation in Tel Aviv by Ehud Dovrad and again in Finland, so that their cumulative travelling between reads exceeds 20'000km (max 27'000km).

Histories of CK20-HG and CHYE-LBBG. There are no photos of them as chicks, but I am sure that they looked like these two chicks in these pics (the other is HG and the other LBBG).

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History of CK20-Herring Gull

TARA and NOKIA = Tampere dumps, AKOSKI and KUUSAN = Dumps north of Kotka, LRANTA = Lappeenranta dump
The Finnish reader numbers are: 5313 =Klaus Laine (all SE Finland reads), 4505 =Markku Kangasniemi, 441 =Visa Rauste (pictures), 788= Hannu Koskinen, 941 = Annika Forsten & Antero Lindholm and 309 = Risto Juvaste.

Herring Gull CK20 history ringed 5 July 1997 in Vehkalahti (chick wing 340 mm) / Tatu Hokkanen
dd-mm-yyyy-Place-Reader	dd-mm-yyyy-Place-Reader	dd-mm-yyyy-Place-Reader	dd-mm-yyyy-Place-Reader
2-12-1997 Germany	20-01-2001 Germany	22-06-2002 AKOSKI 5313	20-06-2003 AKOSKI 5313
19-12-1997 Germany	30-01-2001 Germany	2-07-2002 AKOSKI 5313	5-07-2003 AKOSKI 5313
22-12-1997 Germany	2-02-2001 Germany	21-07-2002 AKOSKI 5313	12-07-2003 AKOSKI 5313
21-02-1998 Germany	5-02-2001 Germany	21-07-2002 TARA 788	19-07-2003 AKOSKI 5313
14-03-1998 Germany	6-02-2001 Germany	21-07-2002 TARA 4505	30-07-2003 TARA 4505
15-03-1998 Germany	16-02-2001 Germany	2-08-2002 TARA 788	4-08-2003 TARA 788
27-03-1998 Germany	21-04-2001 AKOSKI 5313	3-08-2002 TARA 4505	9-08-2003 TARA 788
24-11-1998 Germany	6-05-2001 KUUSAN 5313	12-08-2002 TARA 309	24-08-2003 TARA 4505
8-01-1999 Germany	8-05-2001 KOTKA 5313	31-08-2002 TARA pic 441	31-08-2003 TARA 441
20-01-1999 Germany	19-06-2001 KUUSAN 5313	15-09-2002 TARA 4505	9-09-2003 TARA 4505
17-02-1999 Germany	20-06-2001 KOTKA 5313	20-09-2002 TARA 4505	11-09-2003 TARA 4505
18-02-1999 Germany	26-06-2001 TARA pic 441	21-09-2002 TARA 788	20-09-2003 TARA 4505
23-07-1999 TARA 941	18-07-2001 KUUSAN 5313	28-09-2002 TARA 4505	21-09-2003 TARA 788
24-07-1999 TARA 941	28-07-2001 TARA 4505	2-10-2002 TARA 4505	22-09-2003 TARA 4505
7-08-1999 TARA 309	6-08-2001 TARA 4505	4-10-2002 TARA 4505	24-09-2003 TARA 4505
8-10-1999 TARA 788	26-08-2001 TARA 788	5-10-2002 TARA 4505	25-09-2003 TARA 4505
3-11-1999 Germany	28-08-2001 TARA 788	15-10-2002 Germany	27-09-2003 TARA 788
16-11-1999 Germany	4-09-2001 TARA 788	25-10-2002 Germany	5-10-2003 NOKIA 4505
21-04-2000 LRANTA 5313	27-09-2001 TARA 4505	21-11-2002 Germany	14-10-2003 Germany
6-05-2000 ANJALA 5313	30-09-2001 NOKIA 4505	25-11-2002 Germany	15-10-2003 Germany
7-06-2000 TARA 788	2-10-2001 TARA 4505	27-11-2002 Germany	20-10-2003 Germany
23-06-2000 TARA 788	7-12-2001 Germany	14-12-2002 Germany	6-11-2003 Germany
30-06-2000 TARA 309	18-12-2001 Germany	10-02-2003 Germany	12-11-2003 Germany
13-07-2000 TARA 4505	7-01-2002 Germany	13-02-2003 Germany	26-11-2003 Germany
15-07-2000 TARA 4505	8-01-2002 Germany	15-02-2003 Germany	23-01-2004 Germany
20-07-2000 TARA 6711	9-01-2002 Germany	20-02-2003 Germany	18-02-2004 Germany
5-08-2000 TARA 4505	11-01-2002 Germany	22-02-2003 Germany	4-04-2004 AKOSKI 5313
23-08-2000 TARA 4505	14-01-2002 Germany	25-02-2003 Germany	2-05-2004 AKOSKI 5313
7-09-2000 TARA 4505	18-01-2002 Germany	1-03-2003 Germany	23-05-2004 AKOSKI 5313
5-10-2000 TARA 788	19-01-2002 Germany	7-03-2003 Germany	6-06-2004 AKOSKI 5313
3-11-2000 Germany	16-04-2002 AKOSKI 5313	14-03-2003 Germany	12-06-2004 AKOSKI 5313
19-12-2000 Germany	21-04-2002 AKOSKI 5313	30-03-2003 AKOSKI 5313	10-07-2004 AKOSKI 5313
19-01-2001 Germany	4-05-2002 AKOSKI 5313	13-04-2003 AKOSKI 5313	18-07-2004 AKOSKI 5313
			26-07-2004 TARA 4505
			25-09-2004 TARA 4505

Taraste 26.6.2001
by Visa Rauste

Taraste 31.8..2002
by Visa Rauste

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History of CHYE-Lesser Black-backed Gull

This male bird has been photographed several times. Here you can see how it changes.
For reader numbers see CK20. Yellow colour in the read table means a photo.
There are some more photos and reads from this bird. They will be added later.

*CHYE-Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus f.fuscus)*
Ringed 28-6-2002 as chick (wing 155mm) in Pälkäne (30km South of Taraste) by Risto Juvaste
dd-mm-yyyy	Reader	dd-mm-yyyy	Reader	dd-mm-yyyy	Reader
31- 8-2002	4505	3- 6-2003	4505	11- 5-2004	4505
9- 9-2002	4505	4- 6-2003	4505	12- 5-2004	4505
1-10-2002	4505	7- 6-2003	4505	15- 5-2004	4505
2-10-2002	4505	7- 6-2003	961	15- 5-2004	441
4-10-2002	4505	7- 6-2003	788	16- 5-2004	4505
5-10-2002	4505	7- 6-2003	441	17- 5-2004	4505
5-10-2002	788	13- 6-2003	788	16- 6-2004	4505
5-10-2002	441	14- 6-2003	4505	26- 6-2004	4505
11-10-2002	4505	14- 6-2003	788	10- 7-2004	4505
		14- 6-2003	441	19- 7-2004	4505
		15- 6-2003	4505	20- 7-2004	4505
		20- 6-2003	4505	21- 7-2004	4505
		22- 6-2003	4505	22- 7-2004	4505
		22- 6-2003	788
		22- 6-2003	441
		28- 6-2003	4505
		29- 6-2003	4505
		29- 6-2003	788
		29- 6-2003	441
		1- 7-2003	4505
		4- 7-2003	788
		5- 7-2003	4505
		6- 7-2003	4505

VR 5.10.2002	VR 5.10.2002	VR 5.10.2002	VR 14.6.2003	MK 28.6.2003
VR 29.6.2003	VR 29.6.2003	MK 5.7.2003	VR 15.5.2004	VR 15.5.2004

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Some 50^th anniversary LBBG (L. f. fuscus) histories. NEW !!

In my 50th anniversary festivities I promised to ring a LBBG for everyone. Now ten years later here is the list from the histories of these birds. I read ringed in 1996 total 404 chicks of LBBG. At the end of 2004 there are 2602 reads/recoveries from 152 individuals (38 %). Many of them have been met only once, but 10 ones have read over 100 times. CX15 has been seen once in Tel Aviv (by Ehud Dovrad) and 224 times at Tampere dump. CX70 was seen 1999-2003 Tel Avivissa, but never in Finland. Longest read is from C17C, which was seen at spring 1999 in Israel, at summer in Tampere and at autumn in Ethiopia. Alltogether there was at the end of 2004 158 foreign reads (142 from Tel Avivista/Ehud Dovrad), 11 from Germany and one read from Sweden, Turkey, Netherlands, pPoland and Ethiopien.

If only metal ringing was used those 404 chicks would have brought only about 20 recoveries. So read ringing is gives about 100 times more data than meal ringing. Alltogether the read ringing of gulls, which I started in 1993, has brought about 200 000 reads. Look at the statistics. From my own read ringings I have got over 60 000 reads. At the moment the read ringing of Herring Gulls have been stopped under Finnish Ringing Centre. Year 2005 I ringed 246 Herring Gulls with red CnQn (Q=X, Y or Z and n=number) under the licence of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Reads from these birds should be sent directly to me. They have no metal rings. There are also small additional marks in the rings between letters and numbers. I have also ringed over 1000 large gulls with KJxx or KJxxx read rings in Russian Karelia and White Sea in cooperation with Russian Ringing Centre (Moscow).

Here is a link to these histories. The use of this data needs the permit from FRC.