Merseyside Ringing Group

Conservation and study of wild birds through the use of licensed bird ringing across Merseyside, Cheshire, and North Wales #birdringing

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

@SwanwatchUk @_BTO Ooooh nice. Send us a dm with the location as we’re always keen to do more!

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

The first 3 Grey Herons ringed today as part of our new project. Please report sightings of our colour ringed Herons, Little Egrets and Cormorants @_BTO #ringing #herons

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MRG member John talking to two bird ringing fans @Ness_Gardens today #outreach #birdringing

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Come join us @Ness_Gardens for some bird ringing today, 10am-3pm. #ringing #outreach #celebratingbiodiversity

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Bags filled with @_BTO bird soft toys for ‘Guess the bird from the call’

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All set up for our schools outreach event @BirkenheadPark1 doing some bird ringing and insect collecting #futuregenerationofscientists #citizenscience

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A lovely little trial @BirkenheadPark1 ringing birds before an event on May 22nd #bto #ringing #outreach

[Dr Rebecca Verspoor @RSVerspoor]

A wonderful new collaboration with @BirkenheadPark1 monitoring their nest boxes across the site. 7 blue tit chicks ringed this morning @MerseysideRG @LivUniISMIB #ringing #networking #outreach

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

@timbovillosa @Ness_Gardens No worries Tim, we do a few sessions a year during school holidays. The next one is 14th August I believe but the sessions are published on the Ness Gardens website here: https://t.co/OApaAdVqQG.

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

A great day yesterday doing a ringing demonstration @Ness_Gardens in the break in the weather! #ringing #bto

[Phil Woollen @PhilWoollen]

Great to help in a bird ringing demo @Ness_Gardens today with @MerseysideRG & @RoseFroud. Lovely to see so many people enjoying themselves & even better to catch many healthy Greenfinches. A species we’ve not ringed at these demos before

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

A small catch of Knot and Dunlin last night at #Hoylake, this flagged knot was ringed on Alt estuary in 2018. It has been reported 17 times since, including Skogarnes, #Iceland. Great to see what can be gathered from using leg flags to help bird conservation.

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

Thanks to @realjoelennon for reporting Cormorant 233 at Portmore Lough, N. Ireland, on 24th Jan. This is just the 2nd bird from our project to be found in Ireland.
Last week our Little Egret that went to the Isle of Man was found in N. Wales.

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

MRG have reached a nice milestone at one of our sites, #woolstoneyes, with a Robin ringed on the 17th January being the 190,000th bird ringed there since 1980. The 100,000 was a Moorhen. I wonder what the 200,000th will be?

[Joshua Styles @joshual951]

In July, decisions were made by @NENorthWest which has resulted in an unprecedented outcome in modern times.

0.5ha of the Dee Estuary SAC is now set to be destroyed on Wirral. @WildJustice_org have been helping to reverse this nationally significant precedent.

PLEASE RETWEET!

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

@SamBayley2 Thanks Sam. Was it still looking in a poor state or had it recovered?

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

I retrapped this juv male Sparrowhawk this am. Initially I thought the lesions could be trichomonas infection, but further research seems to suggest Eucoleus dispar. Anyone seen this before? The bird flew off strongly and appeared otherwise healthy.

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

Thanks to @WayneTurner4 for reporting cormorant 225 from Guernsey on the 5th December. This is our first report of a cormorant to the Channel Islands.
#bto

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@daveliverbirder @PaulRalston17 Thanks Dave.

[Merseyside Ringing Group @MerseysideRG]

@PaulRalston17 Hi Paul.
Thanks for reporting the Egret. It was ringed at Hale on 29th May as one from a brood of 3. Would you mind reporting the metal ring (GV73890) via this link?
https://t.co/uQRAVouN79
Your report is the first for this bird.