Longevity list of birds ringed in Europe

Longevity lists were in the 1970s compiled by W. Rydzewski and published several times in the journal THE RING. These lists were the basis for updated lists published by Roland Staav in EURING Newsletters in 1998 and 2001. The list has successively been updated during recent years, but there are still many recoveries of old birds hidden in the archives of the ringing schemes.

The plan is to include the two oldest individuals of a species in the list and the minimum age for a recovery to be included is five years. Recoveries of birds ringed as full-grown or adults and where the age has been calculated as a minimum age are shown with a sign >.

All schemes are kindly requested to support updates of this list by sending corrections or new longevity records to the bird ringing centre at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm ( ).

View the longevity list 
updated 7 August 2008

This longevity list should be cited as:
Staav, R. & Fransson, T. (2008) EURING list of longevity records for European birds (http://www.euring.org/data_and_codes/longevity.htm).