I trained as a ringer under my good friend Bill Jones, often on Oakham Island. Although I now limit myself to the southern shore and Oakham is frustratingly just north of the main channel, mid-estuary, I hope publishing an occasional map from some of his ringing recoveries over the years here on this blog will be of interest.
Ringed: 12th February 2003
Found: 16th May 2008, Töcksfors, Varmland, Sweden.
Freshly dead- found in a fishing net.
Found 1,920 days after ringing, 1,143 kilometres from Oakham.
To date, this is the only British-ringed Grey Heron to have been recovered in Sweden. The bird was most likely not actually British, as foreign-ring recoveries have shown birds from north and east Europe routinely overwinter in the UK.
More details of Grey Heron ring recoveries (plus a map of international movements) can be found c/o the BTO website here.
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