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Selfies of Imperial Cormorants (Phalacrocorax atriceps): What Is Happening Underwater? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
During the last few years, the development of animal-borne still cameras and video recorders has enabled researchers to observe what a wild animal sees in the field.
Agustina Gómez-Laich   +3 more
doaj   +7 more sources

Diets of shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis and cormorants P. carbo in Norway and possible implications for gadoid stock recruitment [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
The diets of shags and cormorants were studied in Norway through analyses of regurgitated pellets. Although this method has many limitations, indications were that both species rely heavily on small gadoids (Gadidae) and sand eels (Ammodytidae) for food ...
Barrett, R. T.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Space Use and Movements of Southeastern Breeding Double-Crested Cormorants (Nannopterum auritum) in the United States

open access: yesDiversity, 2023
Seasonal movements of Double-crested Cormorants (Nannopterum auritum) have been studied at breeding and wintering sites in the southeastern United States, but little information exists on the movements of these birds within and from their southern ...
Leah L. K. Moran   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Auto-rewilding in Post-industrial Cities: The Case of Inland Cormorants in Urban Britain

open access: yesConservation & Society, 2020
The last forty years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) moving inland away from British coastlines.
Cara Clancy, Kim Ward
doaj   +1 more source

The great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) at lower lake Constance/Germany: dietary composition and impact on commercial fisheries

open access: yesKnowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2014
At lower lake Constance, the number of cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) has greatly increased during the last 15 years. An investigation of their diet can help to estimate the impact on fish and fisheries.
Gaye-Siessegger J.
doaj   +1 more source

New Michigan Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) and Flea (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) Records From Colonial Nesting Birds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Banding and censusing large numbers of gull chicks over a 30-year period on Great Lakes islands has produced a collection of five individual ticks from two Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) chicks.
Scharf, William C
core   +2 more sources

Management of Double-Crested Cormorants to Improve Sport Fisheries in Michigan: Three Case Studies

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Impacts of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) to fisheries have been documented, but evaluation of the process and outcomes of cormorant management to reduce impacts on fisheries is lacking. We provide a synthesis of adaptive management of
Brian S. Dorr   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Responses in a Plant-Insect System to Fertilization by Cormorant Feces

open access: yesInsects, 2015
Theoretical arguments suggest that increased plant productivity may not only increase consumer densities but also their fluctuations. While increased consumer densities are commonly observed in fertilization experiments, experiments are seldom performed ...
Gundula Kolb, Peter A. Hambäck
doaj   +1 more source

Developing nondestructive techniques for managing conflicts between fisheries and double‐crested cormorant colonies

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2015
Double‐crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) have been identified as the source of significant mortality to juvenile salmonids (Oncorhynchus spp.) in the Columbia River Basin.
Yasuko Suzuki   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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