Who is the Tay Ringing Group?

The Tay Ringing Group is a registered charity that provides the study and ringing of wild birds in Tayside and Fife. Established in the mid sixties, the Tay Ringing Group has been actively involved in many local and national projects, which include tracing the movements of our summer bird migrants and locating the breeding grounds of winter visiting wading birds.

Members have surveyed the breeding success of local birds of prey and have co-ordinated the protection of Osprey nests from persecution and egg theft, some members have long term studies at Constant Effort Sites (CES) and other nationally recognised conservation projects. Nest boxes have been erected at many of these sites where the breeding success is recorded and results sent to the BTO's Nest Record Scheme.

Members carry out these local research projects in their own time and pay for their own expenses and equipment. Some of these costs are offset by grants from conservation friendly organisations or through the sale of wild bird food and feeders, details of which are enclosed Bird ringing members of Tay Ringing Group are all volunteers who have undergone training to national standards in order to be licensed to ring birds by the British Trust for Ornithology.

A committee consisting of a chairperson, general secretary, treasurer and four general committee members manages the Tay Ringing Group. There is also a designated newsletter editor, ringing schedule secretary, ringer in charge and web site editor who may not necessarily sit as a group committee member but report to the committee on a regular basis.