Ring-recovery data of starlings in the Netherlands: 100 years of travelling with starlings

The tradition of ringing birds as a means of studying avian populations is more than a century old. Scientific bird ringing is a research method based on the individual marking of birds. This technique is one of the most effective methods to study the biology, ecology, behaviour, movement, breeding productivity and population demography of birds. This data set contains 546667 individual records with ring-recovery data of starlings Sturnus vulgaris that have ever been ringed or recovered in the Netherlands during the period 1911-2019. The data set uses the standard EURING2000+ code which is available from www.euring.org The data set includes the end products of the project '100 years of travelling with starlings'