Welcome to the European Crane Working Group website

Report your own observations of colour banded cranes!

Remember: each bird has a combination of three colour rings on each tibia (above the tibiotarsal articulation) and one small metal ring either on the left or the right tarsus.
(More information on colour banding)

These are the colours we currently employ:

 

,,,BLACK,  WHITE,  GREEN,  BLUE,  RED,  YELLOW,,,

 

Please fill carefully as much data as possible, and report the observation
to the corresponding country coordinator
(although all observations will be centralised after their approval):


Sweden:

Simone Röper. Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Dept. of Conservation Biology. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 730 91 Riddarhyttan, SWEDEN

Norway: Jostein Sandvik. Norwegian Nature Inspectorate. Tungasletta 2. 7485 Trondheim, NORWAY

Estonia:

Aivar Leito. Environmental Protection Institute. Akadeemia 4. Tartu. EE 2400. ESTONIA

Germany:   

Günter Nowald. Kranich-Informationszentrum, Lindentraße 27. D-18445 Groß Mohrdorf, GERMANY

Czech Republic

Lubomir Peske.

Israel: 

Dan Alon. Israel Ornithological Center, P.O.B. 61580 Atidim Industrial Park. Tel Aviv 61580 ISRAEL

Spain and 
other countries
:

Javier A. Alonso. Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, U.C.M. 28040 Madrid, SPAIN


When your observation is approved by the corresponding country coordinator
you will receive the whole story of the bird reported since it was banded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RIGHT TIBIA
(colour rings)
Upper 
Center
Lower

LEFT TIBIA
(colour rings)
 
Upper 
Center
Lower

RIGHT TARSUS
(metal ring ?)

LEFT TARSUS
(metal ring ?)

 

 

Date:   

      (dd.mm.20yy)

Was the same bird also seen on other dates? :


Locality:

Province:

Country:

Coordinates:

Latitude:  º '  N 

Longitude:  º  '  

Observer:


Address:


e-mail:

Fax:

Tel.:

Age of the bird

Ad.    

Juv. 

Unknown 

 

Was it paired?

Yes    

No 

Unknown 

 

Dependent young:

0 .

1 .

2 .

Unknown 

 

Do you see a transmitter or antenna?

   Yes   :


It is a
backpack


It is a    
leg-mount  

 

No 


Observations / comments:

Send the report to the following destination: 





© Javier A. Alonso (1998-2002)
http://www.ecwg.org/
mailto:jaalonso@bio.ucm.es