COLOR MARKINGS
used in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
Available at http://www.eaaflyway.net/migratory-waterbirds-in-eaaf/coordination-of-colour-marking/

EVERY SINGLE RESIGHTING IS IMPORTANT. If you observed a marked bird, please report the following information as much as
possible to relevant organizations: species, date, locality (with coordinates), color marks (type, color, and inscription of the marks),
photographs, circumstances and other relevant details, etc. Domestic/local banding schemes as well as contact persons in the following
tables are best focal points. Your reports will benefit migration studies and identification of key routes and habitats of migratory birds.

Anatidae I (swans)

For more information on color-marked swans in Eurasia, please visit the www.cr-birding.org mainly managed by Dirk Raes.

Please visit the website of 'Yamashina Institute for Ornithology' to read color marking protocols for waterbirds in Japan.

Please visit Wildlife Science and Conservation Center (WSCC) of Mongolia’s website to learn more about whooper swan marking projects in Mongolia.

1For more information on color marking activities by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Mongolia, please download an information sheet entitled'Look out for wild birds marked in Mongolia'.

You may also contact with Dr. Pelle Andersen-Harild, the coordinator of the WI Swan Research Group, to consult color and codes used in different
countries/areas for Europe and Asia.

SwansTypeCountry

Color

China

Blue

Example

Notes

Neck

Contact information

Codes used: G00-G99. Since 2011, coordinated byLu Junband

the National Bird Banding Center of China

Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
TypeCountryColor

ExampleNeck band

JapanGreenJK11Notes

Contact information

Yamashina Institute for Ornithology

Bird Migration Research Center, YIO

2Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)
TypeCountry

ColorRussia

Red

ExampleNotes

Contact information

Since 2001 with PTT studies in Khabarovsk

2K22

Bird Ringing Centre of Russia(This project possibly ended.)Since 2007 in Northern Mongolia
Red
Neck band

F18

By Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Yamashina Institute for

WCS neck collar report
Martin Gilbert (WCS)
Yoshimitsu SHIGETA (YIO)

Ornithology (YIO), and Mongolian Ornithological Society (MOS)
Mongolia

Gombobaatar Sundev (MOS)

Since 2010 in Western and Northern Mongolia

Japan

Nyambayar Batbayar (WSCC)

Blue

0T38

By Wildlife Science and Conservation Center (WSCC)

Green

4C76

Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (YIO)

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Bird Migration Research Center, YIO

Tundra/Bewick's Swan (Cygnus columbianus)
Type

Country

ColorRussia

Red

ExampleNotes

Contact information

C218

1999-2001, Lena Delta, Yakutia

123Y

Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (YIO)

Diana Solovyeva
Bird Ringing Centre of Russia
Kaname Kamiya
Green

Neck band

Bird Migration Research Center, YIO

Japan
Grey

J11-15, J26

Sachiko Moriguchi(transmitter)

April 2017, Kucharo-ko, Japan(Niigata University)

USACraig ElyBlue(Alaska)

Leg bandRussia

RedRussia

RedRussia

OrangeK057

USGS Alaska Science Center(USGS Alaska Science Center)
Chaun Delta, Chukotka, 2017, 2018

Diana Solovyeva
diana_solovyova@mail.ru

Chaun Delta, Chukotka, 2016

Diana Solovyeva
diana_solovyova@mail.ru

Lena Delta, Sakha(Yakutia), 2017
Indigirka Delta, 2018

Diana Solovyeva
diana_solovyova@mail.ru
Alexey Antonov
alex_bgsv@mail.ru

For more information on Tundra Swans color-marked in Alaska, please visit a webpage entitled 'Swan Surveillance and Research' of USGS Alaska
Science Center.

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Whooper Swan (C60 on RED neck collar)

Whooper Swan (0T02 on BLUE neck collar)

Banded at Sharga Nuur in Mongolia on 15 Jul 2009

Banded in Mongolia

Observed at Cheonsu Bay in South Korea on 8 Jan 2011

Photo by Nyambayar Batbayar

Photo by DVM Shin-Hwan KIM

Left: Tundra swan (10 on RED leg band)
Right: Tundra swan (A09 on ORANGE legband)5

Anatidae II (geese)

For more information on color marked geese in Eurasia, please visit the www.cr-birding.org managed by Dirk Raes.

Please visit the website of 'Yamashina Institute for Ornithology' to read color marking protocols for waterbirds in Japan.

Please visit Wildlife Science and Conservation Center (WSCC) of Mongolia’s website to learn more about Bar-headed Goose and Swan Goose marking
projects in Mongolia.

The 'Information about Colour Marking: Goose species (Anserini)' page of the Japanese Bird Banding Association (JBBA) has more general/detailed
description on geese marking by Japanese colleagues. Particularly, you may see the ‘List of Banded Geese from 1981 to 2001’ managed by the Japanese
Association for Wild Geese Protection (JAWGP).

There are useful information in the webpage of the Goose Specialist Group (Wetlands International and the IUCN-Species Survival Commission).

For more information on color marking activities by Wildlife Conservation Society in Mongolia, please download an information sheet entitled 'Look outfor wild birds marked in Mongolia'.

6GeeseTypeCountryColor

ExampleNotes

Contact information

Codes used: A01-T99. Since 2006, coordinated by the National Bird
Blue
Neck band

Banding Center of China

China

Lu JunCodes used: C01-C99, C1A-C4Y. Since 2006, coordinated by theGreen

National Bird Banding Center of China

Brent Goose (Branta bernicla)
TypeCountry

Color

ExampleNotes

Contact information

YusukeSawa

In 2016, 21 individuals in Lena Delta.
Russia,Leg bandJapan(BirdLife)
Yellow

Since 2017 in Northern Japan
Bird Migration
Research Center, YIO

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Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons)
Type

CountryColor

ExampleNotes

Contact information

Cooperation project of Goose, Swan and Duck Study Group of
Northern Eurasia (RGG) - Moscow Russia, Japanese Association Evgeny Syroechkovskiy

F1C
Greenfor Wild Geese Protection (JAWGP), and Institute of Biological Masayuki KURECHI (JAWGP)
Problems of the North (IBPN).

Alexandre V. ANDREEV (IBPN)

During 1991-1994: Lower Anadyr River

Bird Ringing Centre of Russia

Since 2001: Meinypilgyno, Southern Chukotka
Bird Ringing Centre of Russia
Red5Z

In 1992 by JAWGP and IBPN in Anadyr, Chukotka

Alexandre V. ANDREEV (IBPN)
Masayuki KURECHI (JAWGP)

Neck band

RussiaBird Ringing Centre of Russia

33E
Since 1991 by JAWGP and IBPN in Kolyma, Yakutia

Yellow

Alexandre V. ANDREEV (IBPN)
Masayuki KURECHI (JAWGP)

Bird Ringing Centre of Russia
N79-N84;
Blue

N93

Alexandre V. ANDREEV (IBPN)
In 1995 by JAWGP and IBPN in Kolyma, Yakutia
Masayuki KURECHI (JAWGP)

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Diana Solovyeva
RedChaun Delta, Chukotka, 2017
diana_solovyova@mail.ru

Leg BandRussia

Diana Solovyeva
RedChaun Delta, Chukotka, 2016
diana_solovyova@mail.ru
Indigirka R -Alazeya R, Yakutia, 2018

GreenAlexey Antonov
alex_bgsv@mail.ru

Since 2004 in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province
Wee-Haeng HUR (NIBR)
Yellow

Mainly for rehabilitated/rescued birds
YoungJun KIM

South

A21 to A49 (except A28 which was a white band)

Korea

Since 2004 in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province
Wee-Haeng HUR (NIBR)
White

Mainly for rehabilitated/rescued birds
YoungJun KIM
H, T, O, and A followed by 2 digits

Neck band

N00-N45; In 1993/94 winter by JAWGP and USGS.
Bird Migration Research Center, YIO
Japan

BlueN45

E and C: From 10 April 2002 in Miyajimanuma, Hokkaido
Masayuki KURECHI (JAWGP)
Yamashina Institute for Ornithology

RedRed with 3 whitedigits

Blue

Blue with 2-3
white digits

NorthAmerica

Alaska and northern Canada 1990-2008

Kathy Meeres

For Tule Goose subspecies
Dan Yparraguirre
California and sc Alaska 1994-2010

Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons)
Diana Solovyeva
Leg bandRussiaRed

Chaun Delta, Chukotka, 2018
diana_solovyova@mail.ru

9Bean Goose (Anser fabalis)
TypeCountryColorExample

F81Notes

Contact information
Bird Ringing Centre of Russia

For Anser fabalis serrirostris
Alexandre V. ANDREEV (IBPN)WhiteSince 1989 by JAWGP in Kamchatka, Yakutia, and Magadan
Masayuki KURECHI (JAWGP)

Neck bandRussia
OrangeY87

RedJ22WhiteLeg bandRussia

White

For Anser fabalis serrirostris

Bird Ringing Centre of Russia

In 1984 by JAWGP in Kamchatka

Masayuki KURECHI (JAWGP)For Anser fabalis middendorfii

Bird Ringing Centre of Russia

Since 1986 by JAWGP in Kamchatka

Masayuki KURECHI (JAWGP)For Anser fabalis serrirostris

Diana Solovyeva

Chaun Delta, Chukotka, 2017, 2018

diana_solovyova@mail.ru

For Anser fabalis serrirostris

Diana Solovyeva

Chaun Delta, Chukotka, 2016

diana_solovyova@mail.ru

For Anser fabalis serrirostrisBlackLena Delta, Sakha(Yakutia), 2017

Diana Solovyeva
diana_solovyova@mail.ru
Alexey Antonov

Alazeya R (Yakutia), 201810

alex_bgsv@mail.ru

Neck band

Mongolia

Since 2007 in Northern Mongolia by WCS

Yellow

WCS neck collar report
Martin Gilbert (WCS)

Since 1986 by Yamashina Institute for Ornithology & Bird Migration Research Center, YIO

A45Neck band

JapanJAWGP

Masayuki KURECHI (JAWGP)

B07, B17, B29 with tracker on middendorffi

Sachiko Moriguchi

Jan 2017 at Fukushimagata, Japan(Niigata University)

Yellow

Greater White-fronted Goose (H41 on GREEN neck collar)

Greater White-fronted Goose (Z19 on YELLOW neck collar)

Banded at Chukotka in lower Anadyr of Russia on 24 Jul 2005

Banded at lower Kolyma, Yakutia, Russia on 29 Jul 1995

Observed at Togyo Reservoir in South Korea on 9 Dec 2007

Observed at Cheonsu Bay in South Korea on 14 Oct 2008

Photo by Yong-Cheol LEE

Photo by Han-Soo SEO

11Bean Goose (F81 on WHITE neck collar)
Greater White-fronted Goose (A41 on YELLOW neck collar)

Banded at Moroshechnaya (Zvezdokan Lake) in Russia in July 1999

Banded and Rehabilitated at Cheorwon, South Korea on 3 Jun 2008

Observed at Cheonsu Bay in South Korea on 18 Nov 2005 and on 22 Nov

Observed at Cheonsu Bay in South Korea on 25 Mar 20102007

Photo by Dong-Pil OH

Photo by Hyun-Tae KIM

Left: Greater White-fronted goose(17 on RED leg band)
Right: Tundra Bean goose (A07 on
BLACK leg band)

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Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus)
Country

Color

ExampleGreen

X25Yellow

B5Since 2007 in Northern Mongolia by WCS

VD

Since 2008 in Northern Mongolia by WCS

G96

Type

Notes

Since 2008 in Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake National Park, Northern Tseveenmyadag Natsagdorj (MAS)

Since

Contact information

2008

inNorthernandWestern

USGS/MAS/FAO/WSCC

Mongolia

by Tseveenmyadag Natsagdorj (MAS)
Nyambayar Batbayar (WSCC)

WCS neck collar report

Neck band

Martin Gilbert (WCS)

Mongolia
WCS neck collar report
OrangeLeg ring

Green

Martin Gilbert (WCS)

Mongolia by USGS/MAS/FAO/WSCC

Nyambayar Batbayar (WSCC)

Guogang ZHANG (NBBC)
Neck band

China

LightBlue

Since 2005 in Qinghai Lake

A30

Changqing DING
National Bird Banding Center (NBBC) of China(Beijing Forestry University)

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Bar-headed Geese (X25 on GREEN neck collar)

Bar-headed Geese (GREEN Leg bands)

Banded in Mongolia on 13 July 2010

Banded in Mongolia

Photo by Nyambayar Batbayar

Photo by Nyambayar Batbayar

Graylag Goose (Anser anser)
Type

Country

Color

ExampleNotes

Contact information
Guogang ZHANG (NBBC)

Since 2005 in Qinghai
Blue

C27

Changqing DING
National Bird Banding Center (NBBC) of China(Beijing Forestry University)

Neck band

China
Guogang ZHANG (NBBC)
Since 2005 in Jilin
Green

C13

Changqing DING
National Bird Banding Center (NBBC) of China(Beijing Forestry University)

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Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides)
TypeCountryColor

ExampleNotes

Contact information

R2M
Oleg GoroshkoRussia

Since 2001 in Dauria and Lower Amur region

Blue

Bird Ringing Centre of Russia

R5V
Tseveenmyadag Natsagdorj (MAS)
Nyambayar Batbayar (WSCC)
OrangeM13

Since 2006 in Eastern and Northern Mongolia
WCS neck collar report

Neck band

Martin Gilbert (WCS)
Mongolia
Tseveenmyadag Natsagdorj (MAS)In Eastern and Northern Mongolia, few green collars were deployed in Nyambayar Batbayar (WSCC)
Green

H142008, but no more was deployed since then.

WCS neck collar report
Martin Gilbert (WCS)In 2003 at Paju, Gyeonggi ProvinceSouth

Jin-Young Park (NIER)White

Only for three individuals (A31, A32, A33)

Korea

Kisup Lee (Korea Waterbird Network)by the National Institute for Environmental Research (NIER)

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Swan Goose (R2M on BLUE neck collar)

Swan Goose (M13 on ORANGE neck collar)

Banded at Udyl Lake, Russia on 16 Aug 2006

Banded in Mongolia on 30 July 2006

Observed at Cheonsu Bay in South Korea on 6 Dec 2006

Photo by Nyambayar Batbayar

Photo by DVM Shin-Hwan KIM

Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii)
TypeCountryNorth

Color

ExampleNotes

Yellow

Yellow with3 BlackdigitsYukon Delta 1984-2005

BlueBlue with3 White
digitsNeck band
America

Contact information
Craig Ely
(USGS Alaska Science Center)

For Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska since 2009

Jeff Black

J00-J99 by Humboldt State University

Dan Yparraguirre

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Ducks
TypeCountry

Color

ExampleNotes

Contact information

Codes used: 00-99, A0-Z9, 0A-9Z, AA-ZZ.
Blue: Tumuji nature reserve in inner
Mongolia

Since 2012, coordinated by the National
Bird Banding Center of China
Codes used: 00-99, A0-Z9, 0A-9Z, AA-ZZ.

Red：Shengjin

LakeinAnhui

Since 2013, coordinated by the National

Province

Bird Banding Center of China
Codes used: 00-99, A0-Z9, 0A-9Z, AA-ZZ.

Nasal saddle

China

Orange：Jiuduansha nature reserve

Since 2011, coordinated by the National Lu Junin Shanghai

Bird Banding Center of China
Codes used: 00-99, A0-Z9, 0A-9Z, AA-ZZ.

Green：Xingkai

LakeinSince 2013, coordinated by the National

Heilongjiang Province

Bird Banding Center of China
Codes used: 00-99, A0-Z9, 0A-9Z, AA-ZZ.

White：Poyang Lake in Jiangxi

Since 2014, coordinated by the National

Province

Bird Banding Center of China

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Nobuhiko Kataoka
Since 2009, mainly on Northern Pintails andLeg BandJapan

Japanese Bird Banding

Green and Blue

Eurasian Wigeons
Association

Scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus)
TypeCountry

Color

ExampleNotes

Contact information

Since 2006 in Primorye

Diana Solovyeva

NN
Leg ring

RussiaYellow

H1
Guogang ZHANG (NBBC)
China

Red

C07

Leg ring

Since 2008 in Heilongjiang
Changqing DING
National Bird Banding Center of China(Beijing Forestry University)

Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri)
TypeCountry

Color

ExampleNotes

Contact informationLeg ringRussia

RedN2Since 2003 in Chukotka

Diana Solovyeva

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Female Scaly-sided Merganser (leg ring H1)
Ringed in Kievka River, Primorye, Russia on 2 April 2008
Female Spectacled Eider (leg red ring)

Photo by Diana Solovyeva

Ringed on Ayopechan Island, Chukotka, Russia on 29 June 2009.
Photo by Valery Shokhrin

Last update: 5 February 2019
For more information or for error correction, please contact the EAAFP Secretariat.

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