another success in Austrian ringreading!
Obviously motivated by my successful ringreading with several Ukrainian rings, yesterday Richard Katzinger and Sergej Ucakar have visited the gull hotspots around Krems/river Donau.
They have read 3 rings of large gulls: yellow PUCT (again from Ukraine/Cherkassy), green XVAP from Germany (mixed inland colony) and yellow PVVS. Last one was an enigma for me and so I have asked Greg Neubauer about that number.
PVVS is the first recovery of his 2010 Russia expedition! The bird was ringed as a chick on an island in river Wolga between Nishni Nowgorod and Kasan and moved west nearly 2300km! Unfortunately Richard has only read rings and did not take pictures, only one digiscoping with his mobile telephone...
Today I have been in Krems at 2 o´clock p.m., but when I approached the gulls roosting area on the ice of the authorities port, all the hundreds gull flew away and were swimming in the river Donau
Later I have met Richard there and he had watched the gulls one hour earlier without any problems, among them again PVVS! I have seen 2 mobile pictures, seems to be a cachinnans, and now we have to wait until he can load those pic´s on his PC.
In the deep darkness I could spot only 2 ringed birds, again 4P45 and XVAP. Interesting bird. I don´t know, is it a HG or a hybrid???
) had been present, I received a few pic´s.
. There was no winter in the last year and therefore no large gulls at Krems and Gneixendorf. And my local spot at Wörth has gone...