International Ornithological Association (COM-GB) Affiliated to the Confederation Ornithologique Mondiale

Membership Benefits :

• Your own membership & ID Code number for your COM-GB rings.
• The opportunity to exhibit at any show held under the COM auspices.
• Subsidised entry to the World Show
• Your birds transported to the World Show and World Show Vets fee's paid.
• The IOA News Letter & Magazine plus a  Welcome pack on joining.
• Being part of a Global organisation gives you contacts & friendships worldwide

To print an application form click here

 

 

RINGS

Ring size chart click here

To print a 2009 Ring order form click here 

Colour Coded rings have been expanded to a six year cycle and those colours are:

 2009 Violet , 2010 Orange , 2011 Dark Blue ,2012 Red ,  2013 Black , 2014 Light Green .

From 2015 the cycle restarts with Violet etc.

Depending on the species , birds are normally rung within the first 7 days before the bones in the foot have 'set'.

To ring the chick you hold the chick in one hand and hold the leg with the fingers of the same hand holding the 3 forward toes together and the rear toe facing in the opposite direction to the front toes.

Step 1 - You then using your other hand, slip the ring over the front three toes.

Step 2 - Across the ankle and over the back toe.

Step 3 - The back toe is then released.