I received an answer from the
Polish Ringing Center about their HN-45088 Common Tern, caught on 6th
May at Atlit salt pans. This bird was ringed as pullus in summer 2008 near
Warsaw by A. Olszewski. The distance between the ringing site in Poland and the
recapture site in Israel is 2464 km (see map). This is the first Polish control
of Common Tern in Israel, and only second spring control, the other was from
Ukraine (1984). I fitted this bird with a white plastic ring with black code I76
and I hope it will be resighted again in Poland or perhaps in winter in Africa.