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October 3, 2009
Glossy Ibis influx into the UK
This September has seen the country’s largest-ever influx of Glossy Ibis, with at least 37 individuals recorded across Britain and Ireland. Interestingly some of these birds were ringed, Doñana in southern Spain being their likely origin. If you are lucky enough to see one of the ringed birds, please report the details to the BTO Ringing Scheme.
At least five of the Glossy Ibises in the recent influx into the country are colour-ringed and have been reported at several different sites. But tracking their movements has been rather difficult, as reports are rather fragmented.
Glossy Ibis, Avon © Gary Thoburn, from the surfbirds galleries
The BTO are keen to be able to put together a complete history of these colour-ringed birds, but need your help. So far we have a few records of PJP, MVP, HH4, MR3 and NJF but there must be more out there.
So if you've managed to read a colour ring on a Glossy Ibis recently then please get in touch with Mark Grantham at the BTO (mark.grantham@bto.org) with details of the code, place and dates seen. Once we have more complete details we will release the full story.
Posted by Surfbirds at October 3, 2009 7:32 AM
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