A ringed partridge or pheasant recovered in Hauts-de-Seine only tells its story if the ring number is reported, and that takes a minute. The page is also meant for the ACCAs, France's approved communal hunting associations, and for the hunters' federation responsible for Hauts-de-Seine: it shows what is published and what never is. Part of the Île-de-France region, which has eight departments, the department is administered from Nanterre.
Who validates recoveries in Hauts-de-Seine?
The hunters' federation responsible for Hauts-de-Seine does not use RingFollow at present. A ring found in Hauts-de-Seine can still be reported: the report is recorded, and it will be validated by a federation, never by GIBIS. The ring number leads back to the original release: if the federation of the department where it took place is registered, it validates; if not, the report waits, filed under department 92.
Reporting in four steps
- Open bagues.gibis.fr on your phone and photograph the ring close up, in good light.
- Enter the municipality, Nanterre or any other in the department; no municipality is ever shown publicly.
- State the species, grey partridge or red-legged partridge for example, and if you know them, the sex and circumstances of the recovery.
- Send: with no signal, the report goes out on its own as soon as coverage returns.
Breeding and restocking
RingFollow tracks rings; breeding, species and restocking are covered on gibis.fr: game birds for restocking and red-legged and grey partridges.
Recoveries and reports in Hauts-de-Seine
- The count of validated recoveries in Hauts-de-Seine still stands at zero.
- The validation queue for Hauts-de-Seine is empty.
- Nationwide, RingFollow records 85 ringed releases (3,592 birds) and 16 validated recoveries, across 5 participating federations.
After you send it
The report is recorded as soon as it arrives, with the photo and the municipality given. Next comes the matching: does the ring belong to a recorded release? If so, and if that department's federation is registered, it reviews the recovery. If no release matches, the report is kept under department 92 and stays out of the public totals. Reports are kept for five hunting seasons after the recovery, then retained only in anonymised form for statistics (see the privacy policy).
Across the borders
Six departments border it: Seine-Saint-Denis to the north-east, Essonne to the south, Val-d'Oise to the north, Yvelines to the west, Paris to the east and Val-de-Marne to the south-east. All its neighbours belong, like the department itself, to the Île-de-France region. Among its neighbours, the share of artificial surfaces ranges from 21% (Yvelines) to 98% (Paris), against 88% here (CORINE Land Cover 2018). None of these neighbours tracks its rings on RingFollow; the nearest registered federation is in Ain, about 385 km to the south-east (centre to centre).
The Île-de-France region and RingFollow
The other departments of the region are Paris, Val-d'Oise, Essonne, Val-de-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines and Seine-Saint-Denis. None of the eight departments in the region has a federation tracking its rings on RingFollow at present (see the list by region).
Hauts-de-Seine in figures
The European CORINE Land Cover inventory (2018) puts artificial surfaces at 88% of the area and forests and semi-natural areas at 10%. The rest is mostly water bodies (2%). About 175 km², 36 municipalities and 1,654,712 inhabitants in 2022: those are the orders of magnitude. With the share of agricultural areas at 0%, the department is in the bottom five of the 96 departments of metropolitan France. Besides Nanterre, the prefecture, the department has two sub-prefectures: Antony and Boulogne-Billancourt.
Sources: INSEE (official geographic code 2025, 2022 population counts), OFB / EEA (CORINE Land Cover 2018), geo.api.gouv.fr (areas).
One ring, one data point
The recovery rate is the number of validated rings divided by the number of birds released. It only exists if hunters report, in Hauts-de-Seine as elsewhere. For an example, see the review of the 2025 pheasant-poult operation (Infochasse mag' no. 72, in French).
Frequently asked questions
Where do I report a pheasant ring found in Hauts-de-Seine?
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.
Do I have to give my name to report a ring in Hauts-de-Seine?
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.
Should a ring engraved with an address, found in Hauts-de-Seine, 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.
Which neighbouring departments track their rings on RingFollow?
None of its direct neighbours. The nearest registered federation is in Ain, about 385 km away between department centres.
Who validates a recovery reported in Hauts-de-Seine?
A hunters' federation: the one for the department where the bird was originally released, if it is registered on RingFollow. The hunters' federation responsible for Hauts-de-Seine does not use RingFollow at present, and GIBIS never validates.
A federation that would like to track its rings
Hunter or ACCA official in Hauts-de-Seine? You can raise it with your federation. All federations and their situation: Federations.
Few figures for Hauts-de-Seine so far? See what a well-filled department page looks like (example with simulated data).