Age codes include HY (hatching year), indicating a bird in the calendar year of its hatching; SY (second year), indicating a bird in its second calendar year (HY/SY indicates a bird in its first plumage cycle, being HY until 31 Dec and SY after 1 Jan); TY (third year), indicating a bird in its third calendar year; AHY (after-hatching year), ...
Leif erickson and the vikings were in fact the first to discover and settle on what is now called the united states of america. Christopher Columbus is given credit for discovering the New World, but was he really the first person to step foot in this new land.
Half a millennium before Columbus âdiscoveredâ America, those Viking feet may have been the first European ones to ever have touched North American soil. Exploration was a family business for the expeditionâs leader, Leif Eriksson (variations of his last name include Erickson, Ericson, Erikson, Ericsson and Eiriksson). His father, Erik the Red, founded the first European settlement of Greenland after being expelled from Iceland around A.D. 985 for killing a neighbor.