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Cormorants

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McCarthy, Peggy
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Morphological Sex Determination in Black-Faced Cormorants (Phalacrocorax fuscescens)

open access: yesWaterbirds, 2013
Black-faced Cormorants (Phalacrocorax fuscescens) are endemic to marine environments in southern Australia and little is known of their biology. Development of a reliable and practical method for sexing adult birds in the field is necessary to aid ...
Gregory R Johnston
exaly   +2 more sources

MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF AVIAN VIRUSES IN NEOTROPIC CORMORANTS (PHALACROCORAX BRASILIANUS) IN CHILE

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2019
We identified two RNA (paramyxovirus and coronavirus) and two DNA (adenovirus and herpesvirus) viruses in a common aquatic bird, the Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), and determined their phylogenetic relationships to other global ...
Claudio Verdugo   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

SEROSURVEY FOR SELECTED INFECTIOUS AGENTS IN TWO SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF CORMORANTS (PHALACROCORAX ATRICEPS AND PHALACROCORAX MAGELLANICUS) FROM COASTAL PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Wildlife Diseases, 2013
We conducted a serologic survey for selected infectious agents on two sympatric cormorants, the Imperial Cormorant (Phalacrocorax atriceps) and the Rock Shag (Phalacrocorax magellanicus).
Luciana Gallo   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Plumage and Ecology of Cormorants

Zoologica Africana, 1975
The paper draws on data attending the etho-ecology of four species of cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae) in support of an hypothesis for the adaptive significance of the predominantly dark plumage of these birds. It is suggested that a dark plumage, primarily by being most receptive to solar radiation, assists cormorants in supplementing metabolic heat for
Siegfried, W.R.   +3 more
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Living with Double-Crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus): A Spatial Approach for Non-Lethal Management in Toronto, Canada

Waterbirds (De Leon Springs, Fla.), 2018
. Tree mortality incurred through the nesting habits of Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) can cause human-wildlife conflicts, often resulting in the lethal control of cormorants to reduce local population numbers in North America.
K. McDonald   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Night Fishing with Cormorants

ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival, 2009
This animation is a very loose and abstract meditation, inspired in part by the 17th Century Japanese screen painting by Kano Tanyu, Night Fishing with Cormorants, and by the very stark and beautiful novel of Akira Yoshimura, Shipwrecks. I am not telling a naturalistic story in this piece, but rather I have tried to make a work that can hold in equal ...
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Cormorant

How does prejudice grow and mutate? What does intolerance, when transferred from human beings onto animals, do to those creatures? And what, in return, does it do to us? Cormorant is the gripping story of a 'greedy' bird hated across the world, the object of global conflict between the fishing industry on the one hand and environmental science on the ...
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