A Serin made a flying visit into friends kitchen in Yeovil it stayed just long enough for a photocall but it has three ringswhich appear to be blue over pink on one leg black on the other.Would this have been ringed locally.
Hi Ian,,
According to the BTO ringing records only 29 Serin have been ringed (i.e. as wild birds) in the UK since 1909 and in the last 5 yrs only 4 have been ringed. As far as I can see there are no colour ringing schemes for this species certainly not in the UK. I suspect this was a captive bred ringed bird probably ringed as a pullus using closed rings .(i.e. no split mark in the ring) You might be able to see this detail if the bird was photographed from close range