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RO RO seen in Sweden
Date: 17/06/2010
He first noticed the bird on 13 May, but could not see all the rings. He went back every evening after that and saw it, and eventually on 4 June was able to get the full combination. He says it was in the same place all the time. He describes the habitat as ‘a bay with reed along the edges, and other lower vegetation around, water-depth about 20-30cm in vgetation shallower, it gets deeper about 20m from the shore’. He says he will be able to observe it throughout the summer, so we look forward to another report later in the year.
RO RO was ringed at Kingsnorth power station on the Medway estuary in north Kent by Bill Jones. It was first metal ringed on 30 August 2003 as an adult then retrapped and colour-ringed on 23 July 2005.
Pete Potts, the Greenshank project leader, was very enthusiastic about this record. ‘We get very few from Scandinavia and most are seen in Norway. We have had 2 before in southern Sweden and one in the White Sea in Russia’.
