SAFRING: South African Bird Ringing Unit

Bird Ringing Manual

The Ringer's Manual is available in PDF format from this web site. It comes in two formats:

• as a single file ringers-manual.pdf 1,773,107 kb
• separate files for each chapter
• Chapter  0 Cover to foreword 124,935 kb
• Chapter  1 Introduction 19,552 kb
• Chapter  2 Catching birds 21,267 kb
• Chapter  3 Handling & storage of birds 397,604 kb
• Chapter  4 Metal & colour rings 13,682 kb
• Chapter  5 Ringing 102,102 kb
• Chapter  6 Bird in the hand 404,939 kb
• Chapter  7 Bird parasites 4,650 kb
• Chapter  8 The law 64,668 kb
• Chapter  9 Ringing administration 19,934 kb
• Chapter 10 Bibliography 5,562 kb
• Chapter 11 Appendices 578,975 kb
• Chapter 12 Back cover 19,552 kb