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Please send me scans or photos of rings for this site: Holmer
The presentation of rings is far from complete. Please help me to update this site.

This site shows pictures of metal birdrings and colourrings.
These pages are dedicated to all people reading birdrings with telescopes and binoculars. 

This site is build by Holmer Vonk and Frank Majoor.
Copied photographs from other webpages will always be linked.
Of all rings on these pages owner and history is documented.

Small terns and large passerines

- Updated february 18, 2004
- Common tern, Little tern, Sparrow, Turnstone

Small gulls and large terns

- Updated february 25, 2002
- Black-headed Gull, Mediterranian Gull, Mew Gull
- 5.5 - 7 mm ringsize

Large Gulls

- Updated february 26, 2002
- Herring Gull, Black Backed Gulls, Skuas
- 8-13 mm ringsize

Swans 

- Updated 31 december 2001
- Steel clip-rings, colourrings and neck-bands of Mute and Bewick Swan

Storks

- updated january 2, 2002
- Mostly flattened rings

Very large rings

- Updated february 26, 2002
- Cormorants, Herons

Colourrings

- Updated february 18, 2004
- Spoonbill, Cormorant, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Sandwich Tern, Greather Flamingo

Nasal marks

- Updated january 7, 2002
- Mallard, Shoveler, Teal and Wigeon

Typical wear of rings - Updated february 26, 2002
- Very worn rings from the Netherlands

Very strange "ring"

- Updated february 18, 2004
- Thank's to Otto Overdijk and Ruud Altenburg

Who is doing what?

- Updated january 27, 2004
- Ringers, readers, their specialties and most extreme record

There are webpages for with schemes of colourrings such as the European Colour-ring Birding Site (Dirk Raes, Belgium), but not for the aluminium and steel rings with all their own wear, colour and kind of metal.

The following persons or institutes borrowed rings to make scans of it: Frank Majoor, Holmer Vonk, Roland-Jan Buijs, Otto Overdijk, Ardie NoormanVogeltrekstation, Per Poulsen, Rudy Offereins, Frode Falkenberg, Dirk Raes, Kjeld Pedersen, Willem van der Waal, Johan Bos, Lieven Caekebeke, Ruud Altenburg, Christer Persson

Photographs of the following webpages are used: 
Birdpage of Hordaland, Norway and the Norwegian Gull page. Thanks to Frode Falkenberg, Norway.
Colourring observation by Per Poulsen, Denmark. 
Menotti Passarella's page
in Italy. 
The page of Rudy Offereins.