A male of a rare bird with rings on its legs was recorded in the “Tuzlivsky estuaries”. PHOTO
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In the National Natural Park “Tuzlivski lymany” in the Odesa region, at the Shagana estuary, employees noticed a male of a rare bird – a sea sandpiper, or it is also called a plover. There were rings on his legs, the reserve informs. The bird species “sea sandpiper” is included in the Red Book of Ukraine and has the status of “vulnerable”. The national park said that the rings spotted on the feet of the bird are a kind of passport of the animal, because they, in particular, record the bird’s age and route. Sea sandpiper. Photo: Oleksandr Bronskov “Bird ringing is one of the methods of studying the biology of wild birds, the terms and routes of their flight, etc. A marked ring is fixed on the leg, on which the number, country, institution, etc. are indicated. Ringing allows you to get more accurate information about the age and origin animals,” the national park explains. With the help of rings, ornithologists managed to find out the life path of a bird that visited the “Tuzliv estuaries”. As it turned out, the bird was “ringed” when it was a chick on June 17, 2006 in the upper reaches of the Kuyalnik estuary in Odesa. In 2007, it nested for the first time, and in 2009 it was ringed again, but with colored rings. During 2009-2019, the sandpiper did not leave the Kuyalnik lowlands, where it nested several more times. Now it was recorded in Shagany. “The 17-year-old bird is a real long-lived bird. Only one sand plover is older than him, which is 18 years old,” the national park adds. We previously reported that pink flamingos and red-book tropical birds have arrived in the Tuzlivski lymani national park in Odesa. Read also: Bee-eating birds were spotted in the Tuzlivski lymani national park in Odesa. PHOTO
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