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Welcome to the new Sorby Breck Ringing Group website. The layout of the
pages will become more fully populated with Group articles and information
as content is made available.
Sorby Breck Ringers - last updated July 2008
I managed to get out ringing with Geoff and Paul Hooper at Bakewell sewage towards the end of June. For our efforts we were well rewarded catching over a hundred birds in the morning mainly of swallows, house martins and...read more
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 The 2007 Report is now available. Text from the Report appears in the Surveys and Articles sections. The whole Report along with previous Annual Reports also appear in full should they be of interest. Up to date news items and ringing totals will form the basis of monthly updates of this website to provide a site of ongoing interest.
 The Gallery is refreshed each month with previous Galleries available. All images have copyright ...view gallery
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 In April this year Kate and I joined a team of UK based ringers for their annual Spring ringing activities at Lotan Kibbutz in the Arava valley in Southern Israel.
 The Kibbutz is located in the arid Arava desert and is on the border with Jordan, the lack of vegetation means that areas of scrub and water are magnets for migrating birds, and the irrigated areas of the Kibbutz are host to many species as a stopover and feeding area on their Northwards spring Migration.
The selection of species passing through was excellent, the commonest species was Lesser Whitethroat, with just over 300 being caught during the trip, the birds were...read more
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