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Newbury Ringing Group Recovery Maps

Lesser Redpoll

Acanthis cabaret

Our recovery maps include all known recoveries to and from :

• West Berkshire, West of Reading,
• On the Berkshire Downs

(now in Oxfordshire)

• North Hampshire Downs
• Small adjoining areas of:

North Hampshire,

East Wiltshire

South Oxfordshire

It includes records of recoveries:

• Ringed by the group
• Recovered by the group
• Notified by nearby ringers
• From The British Trust for Ornithology

(Ringing&Recoveries summaries)

• Found in historical literature

Species have summary sheets giving details only of Newbury Ringing Group records including:

• Brief Status Summary
• Approximate capture totals
• Distance
• Longevity

We use Google maps with overlays, markers with information windows and connecting lines between the Newbury area and the place of ringing or recovery. Where maps are to a large scale connecting lines are meaningless and not shown. The maps have all the standard Google features  including zoom, satelite and pan etc.

Place curser on the icon of the appropriate family name below, select a species from the drop down menu

PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR RECOVERY MAPS HAVE GREY FILTER APPLIED BY GOOGLE  DUE TO THEM WANTING CREDIT CARD DETAIL  EVEN THOUGH THE MAPS ARE  SAID TO BE FREE.
PLUS MASSAGE  FROM  GOOGLE CLICK THE OK BOTTON TO REMOVE THE MESSAGE

Latest Map(s) Update 22-Jan-2022 (click species below for updated map(s):

Garden Warbler

Usually we show recoveries over 20 km, where there are many recoveries sub-maps show the appropriate area.

Recoveries fall broadly as follows (all reported to The British Trust for Ornithology):

Recaptured by ringers, known as a “control”, “recovery”, Sightings, usually colour rings or similar seen in the field.

Casualties; ringed remains found

MARKER LEGEND RINGED AT  RECOVERED ATRINGED & RECOVERED AT

Clicking on a map marker opens an information window (some tabbed) that  give recovery details as follows:

Places of Ringing and Recovery with decimal Latitude and Longitude coordinates.

Dates of Ringing and Recovery with the Ring number,

Distance in kilometres and the period between ringing and recovery in days

Where the source of the data is from another ringer (if known) we show the appropriate title or initials

Use Tabs and or slider (if present) to view multiple recoveries at the same site