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Persian Journal of Acarology, 2023 The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) is a species that alters ecosystems significantly, mainly by depositions of guano, which changes the chemical properties of soil and can lead even to deforestation as well as have a significant impact on soil ...
Mateusz Oszust, Piotr Klimaszyk
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Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year‐round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, and expanding host range of the current H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b) and assess its impact on wildlife. Over
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Limnological Review, 2015 Since 2005, great cormorants have been observed on the Lake Góreckie (Wielkopolski National Park) shoreline. The population of these birds occurring within the lake has gradually increased. In autumn 2008, more than 100 individuals were observed.
Piotr Klimaszyk +2 more
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020 Between March and May 2019, wildlife rehabilitation centers along coastal southern California admitted increased numbers of Brandt's cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) with neurological disease including head tilt, nystagmus, torticollis, tremors ...
Ozge Erdogan Bamac +8 more
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Aerial census of Cape Cormorants and Cape Fur Seals at Baía dos Tigres, Angola
Namibian Journal of Environment, 2018 A total of 250,786 Cape Cormorants, of which 16,038 were individuals on nests in 349 colonies, and 15,831 Cape Fur Seals were counted during a complete aerial photographic census of the island of Tigres and part of the adjacent coast in Angola in March ...
JM Mendelsohn, L Haraes
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Use of social information in seabirds: compass rafts indicate the heading of food patches. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Ward and Zahavi suggested in 1973 that colonies could serve as information centres, through a transfer of information on the location of food resources between unrelated individuals (Information Centre Hypothesis).
Henri Weimerskirch +4 more
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Юг России: экология, развитие, 2022 Aim. To research the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo L., 1758) ecology during the secondary expansion of the Baikal region.Material and Methods. The material for studying cormorant nutrition was 28 stomachs of harvested birds, visual observations of
E. N. Yelayev +7 more
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Pedogeochemical Anomalies in Surroundings of Great Cormorant Colony (Case Study in Lithuania)
E3S Web of Conferences, 2013 The area where the colony of great cormorants in Curonian Spit (Lithuania) prospers from 1989 is the study object of “Koreko” project. Based on geochemical results of 90 samples of topsoil from 6 zones which differ according to the influence of the great
Taraškevičius R. +2 more
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Some observations on Seabirds breeding in the Tsitsikamma Coastal National Park.
Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1983 In 1980 and 1981 more than 50 pairs of kelp gulls Lams dominicanus, 70 of Cape cormorants Phalacrocorax capensis and 20 of whitebreasted cormorants P. carbo nested in the Tsitsikamma Coastal National Park.
R. J. M Crawford
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 The south Atlantic coast supports one of the highest assemblages of non-breeding double-crested cormorants (Nannopterum auritum) known and is a convergence area for Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) during the winter months.
Bryan D. Watts +3 more
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