EURING Newsletter - Volume 3 - July 2001

PECULIAR RECOVERIES

This section offers few more peculiar recoveries, which also illustrate some interesting cases of predation. Schemes are reminded to contribute with their 'odd cases', which can however illustrate poorly known aspects of the life (and death!) of our birds.

Manx Shearwater

This recovery was reported by telephone from America. A man phoned to say that his daughter had found a live bird on her driveway. They took the bird to Detriot Zoo where it died a few days later. This is only the seventh report of a BTO-ringed Manx Shearwater in the USA - it was over 750km inland.

Aves et Reptilia: Osprey

This is the seventh BTO-ringed Osprey to be recovered in Gambia. It was 'found' in the stomach of a crocodile that had been killed. This was reported by Gambian gentleman who had killed the Croc. It was reported in some of the Scottish newspapers recently.

Aves et Pisces: Reed Bunting

Another interesting bird-fish interaction had been documented years back by the recovery of the Italian ringed Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus B150624. The bird had been marked on the coast of Tuscany (Lago di Burano, 42.24N - 11.23E on 1.2.1987, and has been reported by a Finnish angler, whose wife found the bird's leg with ring in the stomach of a Pike Esox lucius being processed for a barbecue - presumably! -, which had been caught on 31.7.87 in Pehkijarvi (Tammela, 60.50N - 23.54E), at over 2,200 Km distance.

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