Wednesday 10 October 2012
















yday: this shag was at brighton marina. heres the blurb:

 'Many thanks for submitting your shag sighting enquiry to the BTO. I can tell you that Red NUR was ringed as a chick on East Wideopens, the Farnes, Northumberland on 08/8/12. This was one of the very last chicks to be ringed this season and was one of a brood of two. The purpose of the colour ringing is to better understand the life history and movements of the shags from the North-east of England and Eastern Scotland with all colour ring reports, alive or dead of great value. Most shags stay to winter in the north east of the UK but every winter we receive reports of a few in the southern North Sea, however we have had very few shags wander west along the English Channel so a sighting at Brighton is of great interest'.

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