WI - Cormorant Research Group Species fact-sheets and accounts updated on 29-01-2003

Cormorant Malformations

Related to cormorants Double Crested Cormorant Great Cormorant Pygmy Cormorant
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Related to cormorants


Double Crested Cormorant

Papers & documents

Pictures

Bill crossed in an immature bird. Mouth of the Oswego River (Oswego, NY, USA). November 2002. Picture by Matt V.
       
       
       

Cormorants and environmental contamination


Great Cormorant

Papers & documents

Volponi S. 2000. Congenital abnormalities in a Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis from the Punte Alberete natural reserve (Po River Delta, NE Italy). Cormorant Study Group Bulletin, 4: 47-48.

Pictures

  Punte Alberete Natural Reserve (Ravenna, Italy). June 1995. Picture by Stefano Volponi
       

Pygmy Cormorant

Papers & documents

Volponi S. 1996. Bill deformity in a Pygmy Cormorant Phalacrocorax pygmeus chick. Colonial Waterbirds, 19(1): 147-148. [download .pdf - 157 KB]

Pictures

Bill crossed in a nestling. Punte Alberete Natural Reserve (Ravenna, Italy). June 1995. Picture by Stefano Volponi