Wildlife Inspector

  • undertaking inspections at the premises of keepers of registerable birds and/or traders of endangered species to ensure the appropriate legislation is being followed
  • assisting the police and other enforcement agencies by providing species identification expertise, witness statements and expert evidence

 

 

Expert Witness

Roger has more than 20 years experience of giving evidence in Court, involving prosecutions brought under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981.

 

 

Close Ring Expert

 

Ringing Regulations

Article 36.5 of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 939/97 defines a close ring to be "a ring or band of metal in a continuous circle, without any break or join, which has not been tampered with in any way, of a size which cannot be removed from the bird when its leg is fully grown; after having been applied in the first days of the bird's life, and which has been manufactured for that purpose"

Statutory Instrument No 1220 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act (Ringing of Certain Birds) Regulations 1982, Schedule 2, specifies the maximum internal diameter of the rings that can be applied to each species. The sizes were developed to ensure that the rings cannot be fitted to birds when adult. When a ring shows obvious signs of having been tampered with, or can be removed from a bird's leg, it clearly demonstrates that the bird is not ringed in accordance with the regulations.

 

Roger Caton has developed a specialised interpretation for detecting tampered rings

supported by photographic evidence and expert witness reports.

 

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