Some of you may recall that back on the 25th May 2009 I saw a colour ringed Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) feeding amongst a group of Whimbrel on the beach at Ynyslas. The bird displayed adult non-breeding plumage. From enquiries made I have established that the Godwit was ringed on the West Frisian island of 'Terschelling' in the Wadden Sea area of the Northern Netherlands on the 17th May 2006. This was the first sighting of the bird outside the Netherlands. The ringing project on Bar-tailed Godwits as well as the Red Knot is being undertaken by the wader-group of the Department of Marine Ecology of The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) based on the Dutch island of Texel. For information on the colour ringing project please visit the link below and enter 'colour rings' in the search engine:-
http://www.nioz.nl/