FBO produces an annual report covering the a summary of the year’s ringing efforts and selected recoveries. The most recent reports can be found below.
- Constant Effort Site Report 2025The FBO Ringing Team run a CES site at Thornwick. CES (Constant Effort Site) is a BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) led project aimed at monitoring bird populations through time, in order to aid effective conservation. It seeks to monitor numbers of birds (abundance), the number of births (breeding success or productivity) and deaths, usually…
- Ringing Report 2024
The purpose of the ringing group will be to gather data on wild birds, especially migrants, which are found in the FBO area. The secondary purpose will be to assist in the training of people in the techniques of trapping, handling and ringing wild birds. In 2021 we trialled a constant effort site (CES) in… - Ringing Report 2023The Flamborough Bird Observatory (FBO) ringing group comprises the historical recording area east of the Dykes on Flamborough Headland together with operations at Bempton, mainly at Bempton Cliffs RSPB Reserve. The purpose of the ringing group will be to gather data on wild birds, especially migrants, which are found in the FBO area. The secondary…
- Ringing Report 2022The Flamborough Bird Observatory (FBO) ringing group comprises the historical recording area east of the Dykes on Flamborough Headland together with operations at Bempton, mainly at Bempton Cliffs RSPB Reserve. The purpose of the ringing group is to gather data on wild birds, especially migrants, which are found in the FBO area. The secondary…
- Ringing Report 2021The Flamborough Bird Observatory (FBO) ringing group comprises the historical recording area east of the Dykes on Flamborough Headland together with operations at Bempton, mainly at Bempton Cliffs RSPB Reserve. Totals of ringed birds are also given for Buckton, however all ringing at that site is independent of the FBO ringing group. The purpose of…
- Ringing Report 2020The Flamborough Bird Observatory (FBO) ringing group comprises the historical recording area east of the Dykes on Flamborough Headland together with operations at Bempton, mainly at Bempton Cliffs RSPB Reserve. The purpose of the ringing group is to gather data on wild birds, especially migrants, which are found in the FBO area. The secondary purpose…
- Ringing Report 2019As from the 1st January 2019 all of the bird ringing operating throughout the historical area east of the Dykes and also at Bempton is carried out by The Flamborough Bird Observatory (FBO) ringing group. Succeeding the now defunct East Yorkshire Ringing Group. 2019 was another year dominated by westerlies, denying us of even a…
