A record number of birds were ringed in Iceland last year, a total of 19,046 birds of 79 different species were tagged.
Guðmundur A. Guðmundsson, an animal ecologist with the Icelandic Institute of Natural History and who is in charge of bird ringing in Iceland, says ringing efforts help keep track of the movements of the birds, providing experts with vital information on their life history.
Read more: Worrying declines for Iceland's seabirds
Most of the banding is done by bird enthusiasts, the most productive of whom is Sverrir Thorstensen from Akureyri in North Iceland, who marked 3,555 birds in 2014.
Read more: The Icelandic spring arrived with the first European golden plover of the year
Organised ringing efforts have been conducted in Iceland since 1921, with 668,144 birds being marked since then. According to Vísir this is the first time a bird marked in Ghana has been caught in Iceland.
A record number of birds were ringed in Iceland last year, a total of 19,046 birds of 79 different species were tagged.
Guðmundur A. Guðmundsson, an animal ecologist with the Icelandic Institute of Natural History and who is in charge of bird ringing in Iceland, says ringing efforts help keep track of the movements of the birds, providing experts with vital information on their life history.
Read more: Worrying declines for Iceland's seabirds
Most of the banding is done by bird enthusiasts, the most productive of whom is Sverrir Thorstensen from Akureyri in North Iceland, who marked 3,555 birds in 2014.
Read more: The Icelandic spring arrived with the first European golden plover of the year
Organised ringing efforts have been conducted in Iceland since 1921, with 668,144 birds being marked since then. According to Vísir this is the first time a bird marked in Ghana has been caught in Iceland.
