Latvia to Lurgan to Latvia to Lurgan to Latvia and back!

Almost two years ago (to the day), we caught and colour-ringed a bird at Kinnego Marina, Lough Neagh which had already been fitted with a Latvian metal ring. The bird was subsequently seen a couple of times that winter before being photographed on Getlini dump near Riga, Latvia (see here) in April 2015 and again in April 2016 having spent the winter months in between back at Kinnego.

01/11/2014	Lough Neagh	Kinnego Marina
14/03/2015	Lough Neagh	Kinnego Marina
12/04/2015	Riga, LATVIA	Getlini dump
26/11/2015	Lough Neagh	Kinnego Marina
29/11/2015	Lough Neagh	Kinnego Marina
01/02/2016	Lough Neagh	Kinnego Marina
14/02/2016	Lough Neagh	Kinnego Marina
06/04/2016	Riga, LATVIA	Getlini dump
23/10/2016	Lough Neagh	Kinnego Marina

As you can see from the table above, 2BPP has returned to Kinngeo for another winter and it was photographed a couple of days ago. The metal ring is very worn and it is unlikely that it would've been possible to identify this individual without the colour-ring.

Photo by Gary Platt

Many thanks to Gary for his report and photo.