The use of a single web address on rings issued throughout Europe has been tested and found to be effective in increasing reporting rates by members of the public. The address, www.ring.ac, takes users to a multi-language website wheredetails of the bird they have found can be entered. These details are sent directly to the appropriate schemes and finders are informed about the ringing details of birds in the usual way. The European Union for Bird Ringing EURING is the co-ordinating organisation for European bird-ringing schemes. It aims to promote and encourage: * Scientific and administrative co-operation between national ringing schemes * Development and maintenance of high standards in bird ringing * Scientific studies of birds, in particular those based on marked individuals * The use of data from bird ringing for the management and conservation of birds These objectives are achieved mainly through co-operative projects, the organisation of meetings and the collection of data in the EURING Data Bank. Some examples of current EURING projects Web address on rings & internet platform for ring reporting EURING Analytical Conferences These meetings focus on the development, understanding and integration of new methodologies in the analysis of ringing data with special emphasis on capture- recapture statistics. Since 1986 nine meetings have been organized in Europe and the United States. For all of them proceedings have been produced which demonstrate the state of the art statistical methods with animal marking data. For informations about the next Analytical Conference see http://www.phidot.org/euring EURING 2000+ Code EURING has a standard set of codes that are used by Ringing Schemes throughout Europe. The use of these codes by the European schemes facilitates easy data transfer between schemes and provides analysts with cross-european data sets in a standard format. from White & Burnham (1999), Bird Study 46 paper on program MARK Euring Co-ordinating bird ringing throughout Europe Poster by Wolfgang Fiedler; Chris du Feu and Stephen Baillie added helpful suggestions. Code figure by Chris du Feu, all photographs from archive Vogelwarte Radolfzell, other material based on info on www.euring.org www.euring.org www.ring.ac EURING Member Schemes in alphabetical order of the country (Schemes with * are Associate members) 1. Albanian Bird Ringing Scheme, Tirana 2. Azerbaijan Ornithological Society 3. Belarus Ringing Centre, Minsk 4. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels 5. Bulgarian Ornithological Centre, Sofia 6. The Channel Islands Bird Ringing Scheme, Jersey 7. Zagreb Ringing Scheme (Croatia) 8. Bird Ringing Centre Cyprus, Nicosia 9. Bird Ringing Centre of the Czech Republic, Praha 10. Copenhagen Bird Ringing Centre (Denmark) 11. Matsalu Bird Ringing Centre (Estonia), Läänemaa 12. Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki 13. CRBPO, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris 14. Institut für Vogelforschung "Vogelwarte Helgoland" (Germany), Wilhelmshaven 15. Hiddensee Bird Ringing Centre (Germany), Stralsund 16. Vogelwarte Radolfzell Bird Ringing Centre (Germany), Radolfzell 17. Hellenic Bird Ringing Centre (Greece), Athens 18. Hungarian Bird Ringing Centre, Budapest 19. *Icelandic Bird Ringing Scheme, Rejkjavik 20. *Israeli Bird Ringing Centre, Tel-Aviv 21. Italian Ringing Centre,ISPRA, Ozzano Emilia (BO) 22. *Animal Marking Centre, Institute of Zoology (Kazakstan), Almaty 23. Latvian Bird Ringing Centre, Salaspils 24 . Lithuanian Bird Ringing Centre, Kaunas 25. Zoology Department, Institute of Biology (Macedonia), Skopje 26. Valletta Ringing Scheme (Malta) 27. Vogeltrekstation Arnhem (Netherlands) 28. Norwegian Bird Ringing Centre, Stavanger 29. Institute for Ornithology (Poland), Gdansk 30. Bird Ringing Centre/CEMPA (Portugal), Lisboa 31. Centrala Ornitologica Romana (Romania), Bucharest 32. Russian Bird Ringing Centre, Moscow 33. Centre for Animal Marking (Serbia and Montenegro), Belgrade 34. Slovakia Bird Ringing Centre, Prievidza 35. Slovenijan Bird Ringing Centre, Ljubljana 36. Oficina de Especies Migratorias (Spain), Madrid 37. San Sebastian Ringing Office (ESA; Spain) Donostia-San Sebastian 38. Swedish Bird Ringing Centre, Stockholm 39. Bird Ringing Centre at Schweizerische Vogelwarte (Switzerland), Sempach 40. National Ringing Scheme KAD (Turkey), Ankara 41. Ukrainian Ringing Centre, Kiev 42. British Trust for Ornithology (United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland), Norfolk Not on the map: *South African Bird Ringing Centre (SAFRING), Rondebosch 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 3 GBT|A0|F...181181|0|1|ZZ|12770|12770|N|0|Z|U|F|F|0|3|U|--|--|-|02091989|0|----|GBSX|+504400+0001500|0|8|20|0|3|-----|---|-----||||||| … GBT|A0|F...181181|0|4|ZZ|12770|12770|N|0|-|U|U|F|0|0|U|--|--|-|20021991|0|----|AGAL|+365000+0040500|3|2|20|0|3|01575|169|00536||||||| … Ringing scheme Identification method Ring number Details of type of ring Species Various details about capture and processing Sex, age and status Data related to nestlings Date and time information Place code Co-ordinates Circumstances of capture / recovery Distance moved Direction of movement Time since ringing Biometrics