Dyfi Osprey Who's Who

Want to know who's who of the Dyfi Ospreys? You're in the right place... Click on the pictures below to find out all about your favourite Dyfi ospreys. 

Or click here for the Dyfi osprey family tree.

At the Dyfi Osprey Project we give names to our ospreys to help us keep track of who is who and to make it easier to explain their lives to people because we believe that education is a huge part of conservation. All of the chicks born on the Dyfi are named after Welsh rivers or lakes. 

Like many other osprey projects around the world we use leg rings to formally identify our ospreys, these are called Darvic rings after the type of plastic they are made from. We use the standard UK conventions for ringing, this means we use blue rings on the right leg. Blue denotes the UK and the right leg is used in Wales and England, in Scotland they ring on the left leg. Our ospreys have a second ring on their left leg, a small, metal British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) ring. 

When we talk about the ospreys we often use an abbreviated form for the osprey darvic leg-rings that identify individual birds. All leg-ring details start with a colour, then the leg-ring number or letters and then the short form of the year the bird was born. So, Blue 36/15 would refer to a blue leg-ring with then number 36 on a bird that was born in 2015.