Live ringed bird If for some reason you get your hands on a live ringed bird or manage to read the ring of a bird with a coloured or numbered ring: Carefully write down the text inscribed on the ring, ...

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring I remember life ...

Why are birds ringed? Ringing provides information on, for example, the age, mortality and causes of death of birds, hatching site, site and mate fidelity, annual population changes, the lifetime ...