Devon and Cornwall Wader Ringing Group

High Tide 3.70m

On the evening of 29 September 2018 at Dawlish Warren a team of 14 took a modest mist-net catch of 13 Oystercatcher (10 new birds and 3 retraps) and a Dunlin, but it was good to get a session under our belts. We colour-ringed another 12 birds, and was great to see that one of the retraps was ringed over 24 years ago - more details here. We learnt a lot from our first session, and feel like we can build on this and will catch a lot more in the future. The 3.7m tide was fine in the conditions we may chose lower tides in future and set more nets.

Huge thanks to Steve and the ranger team for all the help and support, particularly for providing so many of the team with chest waders. It was also great to have the Golf Club being so helpful and allowing us to drive the land rover down their track – that made life so much easier than having to carry all that kit.

Mist-netting totals

2023-2024 winter totals

Species Ringed Retraps Controls Colour ringed
Redshank 12 0 0 0
Snipe 7 0 0 0
Curlew 10 0 0 10
Dunlin 70 0 1 71
Grey Plover 0 1 0 0
Black-tailed Godwit 5 0 0 0
Bar-tailed Godwit 1 0 0 0
Water Rail 1 0 0 0
Mallard 1 0 0 0
Turnstone 1 0 0 0

2024-2025 winter totals

Species Ringed Retraps Controls Colour ringed
Dunlin 3 0 0 3
Redshank 1 0 0 0
Lapwing 1 0 0 0
Snipe 1 0 0 0

Grand totals

Species Ringed Retraps Controls Colour ringed
Dunlin 124 0 1 121
Redshank 53 0 0 0
Lapwing 6 0 0 0
Snipe 9 0 0 0
Curlew 30 0 0 30
Grey Plover 2 1 0 2
Black-tailed Godwit 36 0 0 0
Bar-tailed Godwit 22 0 0 0
Water Rail 1 0 0 0
Mallard 1 0 0 0
Turnstone 1 0 0 0
Jack Snipe 1 0 0 0
Teal 1 0 0 0
Common Gull 1 0 0 0
Oystercatcher 48 0 0 44
Woodcock 1 0 0 0
Knot 1 0 0 0
Greenshank 1 0 0 0

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