Good news today from the Netherlands! I got an email from my old buddy René Pop in which he told me that, at last, the Dutch have this year radio-tagged ten Ruddies and colour-ringed some as well! Hopefully we will get some answers on their origin soon.

You can read a bit about it and see part of this year’s 700-strong flock here (in Dutch!) and some facts about the tracking program here (also in Dutch!) Google translate may come in handy …