You mean this one?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/photo_galleries/article6816964.ece?slideshowPopup=true&articleId=6816964

<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/photo_galleries/article6816964.ece?slideshowPopup=true&articleId=6816964
>

They also ran another interesting article last June: "Bird
conservation hit by decline in public help to record the rings"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6695342.ece

> Although a record number of birds are being tagged today, the
> wardens face a serious problem: people are no longer returning the
> rings, making it increasingly difficult to track where birds go and
> how long they survive.
>
> The practice is dependent on the public posting rings found on dead
> birds, providing the date and location where the bird was found.
> Since the 1950s, when the ringing scheme had a return rate of around
> 4 per cent, the number of rings coming back has plummeted. In 2006,
> the most recent year on record, about 1 per cent of rings were
> returned.
>

The article also has a

> The European Union has launched a co-ordinated bird-ringing website
> at www.ring.ac

Their site is

http://www.euring.org


On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:48 AM, vogelfreund at comcast.net wrote:

> Please scroll down to it. I thought I specifically saved the Bird
> Ringing story.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: vogelfreund at comcast.net
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 12:46:42 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada
> Pacific
> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Re: Bird Ringing in UK
>
> Here it is:
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/photo_galleries/
>
> (I hope)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: vogelfreund at comcast.net
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 12:38:06 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada
> Pacific
> Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Bird Ringing in UK
>
> Sorry; it misfired.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: vogelfreund at comcast.net
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 12:37:04 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada
> Pacific
> Subject: Bird Ringing in UK
>
> Here's something I stumbled on:
>
> http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/discussion/gifs/U5b2_gif.htm
>
> I hope this got thru OK.
>
> Phil Hotlen; Belllingham, WA

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