Coloured ring on the leg, number clearly legible: if you have recovered a farm-reared bird in Côtes-d'Armor, here is where to report it and what happens to the information. RingFollow never publishes the name of a hunter, an ACCA (approved communal hunting association) or a municipality, nor any count below 3. Côtes-d'Armor is one of the four departments of the Brittany region, with Saint-Brieuc as its prefecture.
Who validates recoveries in Côtes-d'Armor?
For department 22, no federation uses RingFollow at present. A ring found in Côtes-d'Armor can still be reported: the report is recorded, and it will be validated by a federation, never by GIBIS. If the bird comes from a release in a department whose federation is registered, that federation validates the recovery; otherwise the report stays on file for Côtes-d'Armor.
Reporting in four steps
- Open bagues.gibis.fr on your phone and photograph the ring close up, in good light.
- Enter the municipality, Saint-Brieuc or any other in the department; no municipality is ever shown publicly.
- If the bird carries a wing tag rather than a leg ring, say so at the same step, together with the species.
- Send the report; name, phone and e-mail are optional, but an e-mail address gets you an acknowledgement.
The breeding side: gibis.fr
The ringed birds tracked here come from the GIBIS game farm in Chatte (Isère). For the pheasant strain, see PUR CHASSE® pheasants; for restocking in general, restocking game birds.
Key facts about Côtes-d'Armor
The European CORINE Land Cover inventory (2018) puts agricultural areas at 83% of the area and forests and semi-natural areas at 11%. The rest is mostly artificial surfaces (6%). With 611,859 inhabitants (INSEE, 2022 population count) on about 6,980 km², the density is roughly 88 inhabitants per km²; the department has 344 municipalities. At 6%, the share of artificial surfaces here is the lowest among the department and its three neighbours. Besides Saint-Brieuc, the prefecture, the department has three sub-prefectures: Dinan, Guingamp and Lannion.
Sources: INSEE (official geographic code 2025, 2022 population counts), OFB / EEA (CORINE Land Cover 2018), geo.api.gouv.fr (areas).
The regional picture
The other departments of the region are Morbihan, Finistère and Ille-et-Vilaine. None of the four departments in the region has a federation tracking its rings on RingFollow at present (see the list by region). The number of municipalities (344) is higher here than in any other department of the Brittany region.
After you send it
Once sent, the report is kept; if you left an e-mail address, an acknowledgement follows. The ring number is then matched against known releases; if one took place in a department whose federation is registered, that federation validates the recovery. Without a match, the report stays on file for Côtes-d'Armor, unpublished, until a federation can validate it. Reports are kept for five hunting seasons after the recovery, then retained only in anonymised form for statistics (see the privacy policy).
Neighbouring departments
Its neighbours are Ille-et-Vilaine to the east, Finistère to the west and Morbihan to the south. All its neighbours belong, like the department itself, to the Brittany region. Among its neighbours, the share of agricultural areas ranges from 74% (Morbihan) to 84% (Ille-et-Vilaine), against 83% here (CORINE Land Cover 2018). No federation registered on RingFollow lies within 400 km; all of them are listed on the Federations page.
RingFollow figures for Côtes-d'Armor
- No validated recovery has been located in Côtes-d'Armor on RingFollow so far.
- No report linked to the department is awaiting validation.
- For comparison, all of France: 3,592 ringed birds in 85 releases and 16 validated recoveries (5 participating federations); details on the Statistics page.
One ring, one data point
ACCAs and federations fund releases; rings are the only way to know what they yield in the field. Consolidated figures are public on the Statistics page, by department.
Game-bird rings: common questions
Should a ring engraved with an address, found in Côtes-d'Armor, be reported here?
No. RingFollow only covers game-farm rings, which carry no address. Rings from scientific ringing schemes are reported to those schemes; this site's guide tells you more.
Does GIBIS validate reports from Côtes-d'Armor?
No, never. Recoveries are validated by the federation of the department where the bird was released, if it is registered on RingFollow.
Do I have to give my name to report a ring in Côtes-d'Armor?
No. Name, phone and e-mail are optional; an e-mail address only gets you an acknowledgement. Only the validating federation sees what you leave.
Where do I report a pheasant ring found in Côtes-d'Armor?
On bagues.gibis.fr, from a phone: a photo of the ring, the species and the municipality where the bird was taken are enough. No account is needed.
Why are there no statistics for Côtes-d'Armor?
A department's statistics are only published if its federation tracks its rings on RingFollow and at least 3 releases are recorded there. The Côtes-d'Armor hunters' federation (FDC 22) does not use RingFollow at present.
A federation that would like to track its rings
Hunter or ACCA official in Côtes-d'Armor? You can raise it with your federation. All federations and their situation: Federations.
Few figures for Côtes-d'Armor so far? See what a well-filled department page looks like (example with simulated data).