New season

New season didn't start well. I have problem with entering to Novi Sad garbage dump, so now I catch gulls on other places. I managed to catch 6 BHGs at night on Danube river but it is to windy so it is impossible to continue this type of action with success...

Savo with his first BHG

Two more from Germany and first one in Netherlands

Last year I had three observation of one BHG ringed with metal ring in Novi Sad and found in Germany (Frankfurt), but  YARN   and  YARX  are my first cr BHGs found in Germany one in far north and one in south part.

 YARN  was seen on 16.07.2013 by Olaf and Barbara Ekeloef and  YARX  was seen on 09.07.2013 by Franz Kretschmar both birds were ringed on 06.03.2013 in Novi Sad.

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View YARX in a larger map

09.08.2013  YASB  was seen in  Netherland by Jaap van der Linden, the bird was ringed on 06.03.2013 in Novi Sad.

This was my first one in Netherlands :)

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Spring time

On 10.05.2013 we went to count nests to colonies on Palic lake, last year here were nesting around 1500 pairs of BHGs and about 150 Med gulls. This year we count 850 nests of BHG and 43 of Med gulls.

Otto and Anna counting nests

In first few minutes of this video you can see last year situation on the Palic lake island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sykyTqVD28c&t=190


So in a next few days I started to prepare rings and i was really hoping to use them all.

But then came rain and it was raining more than 3 weeks, so on 8th June we went to ringing chicks and we didn't belive that we find to many gulls. Rain and cold wheather came in wrong time. So there was no adult or pulli Med gulls. We catch around 25 BHG chicks on island and other chicks Armin and Ferenc catch on water, while me and Tamas ringing. At the end it was ringed only 53 BHGs, hope the next year will be better for breeding gulls.

Few recoveries

      YATR  was seen 16th and 20.03.2013 by Christoph Roland in Vienna, he was ringed  06.03.2013 at Novi Sad garbage dump.

  YAPU  was seen at 17.03.2013 in Hungary,Debrecen at rubbish tip by Gabor Papp and one week later   YANA  was also seen at the same spot by Gabor. Both birds were ringed on 06.03.2013 at Novi Sad garbage dump.

16.03.2013  YAUK  was trapped in Budapest at rubbish tip with clap net by Daniel Hegedus. YAUK  was ringed 22.02.2013 at Strand beach, Novi Sad.

01.04.2013  YARK  was seen in Warsaw by Lukasz Matyjasiak. We ringed bird  on 06.03.2013 at Novi Sad garbage dump.

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Few interesting BHGs seen this year

Three leucistic BHGs and one with interesting orange beak.

Short introduction

       Two years ago we started to read colour rings on gulls in Serbia. Birds were mainly ringed in Croatia and Hungary, but there were also ringed gulls from Czech republic, Ukraina, Poland, Italy and Lithuania at Danube river in Novi Sad. Last year me and my small team started to catch gulls with clap net on Novi Sad garbage dump and ring them with metal rings.

       This year I started to use colour rings and beside garbage dump I started to catch gulls on Danube and Strand beach in Novi Sad. My rings for small gulls are white with starting letter Y and 3 letters, YAAA-YZZZ , for Med gulls  Y001-Y999  and for large gulls  Y:001-Y:999. So if you read some of these codes please contact me to dragan.fabijan@gmail.com and i will answer you as soon as possible.  

At the end I like to thank Luka from Zagreb for milion one advice.

Strahinja and me read in one day 

Big fellows

 Me ringing 

 Strahinja with Yellow-legged gull

BHG

 BHG from Czech Republic catch on Danube (Novi Sad) by loop.

Nice photo by Kaca

BHG

Med gull

Drazenko, Drasko and Strahinja looking for colour ringed gulls.

Thanks Magdalena, Strahinja and Katarina for photos.