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The annual update on ringing and nest records was published in September and includes several new features and updates, with the ringing totals now being listed by bird recording area. Also new this year is a look-up tool of reports from the Nest Record Scheme. The longevity records have been updated and include new records like a Long-tailed Tit re-trapped nearly 9 years after being ringed! There’s a new section looking at the timing of breeding and moult (phenology) which generates interesting graphs based on information gathered through nest recording and ringing. Compare for example the different primary moult strategies of Reed Warbler (a long distance migrant) and Chiffchaff which winters much closer to Britain. There are currently 15 species to view, but it is hoped to expand this to include more species in the future. 

 

One recent recovery of note was the second ever German-ringed Whitethroat in Britain. Ringed on Helgoland in May, it was re-trapped in east Suffolk just under two months later. Surprisingly, there are many similarities with the only previous record, when a Whitethroat ringed on the island of Wangerooge in 1952 was re-trapped in Cley-next-the-Sea, north Norfolk in July of that year.