WI - Cormorant Research Group The Bulletin - No. 4, June 2000 created on 19-09-2000
Wetlands International
CORMORANT RESEARCH GROUP BULLETIN
Number 4 - June 2000

Contents

Editorial

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Announcement 5th International Conference on Cormorants

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L.R. Wires, F.J. Cuthbert, D.V. Veseloh & D.R. Trexel The Double-Crested Cormorant in Eastern and central North America: a summary of status and selected research

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M. Fukuda The Great Cormorant in Japan

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R. Veldkamp Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo lucidus and other piscivorous waterbirds on the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania in January-February 1997

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J. Shergalin Information on Cormorants in the former USSR

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C.V. Wernham & W. J Peach The ecology of British Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo outside the breeding season, as shown by ring recoveries

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S. Volponi Cormorant research in the Po Delta (NE Italy)

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R. Gwiazda Numbers of non-breeding Cormorants and their time budget activity at eutrophic, sub-mountain reservoir in southern Poland

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T. Bregnballe & T. Asferg Shooting and control of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo in Denmark, 1994/95 - 1998/99

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T. Bregnballe Colour-ringing of Great Cormorants in Denmark, 1995-2000

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T. Bregnballe & J. Gregersen Colour and codes used in Danish Cormorant colonies

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S. van Rijn & M. Zijlstra Extension of colour ringing programme in Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis in the Netherlands

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J. Nienhuis The use of chewing pads and otholits of cyprinids for estimating food intake of Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo

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S. van Rijn & M. Van Eerden Automatic recording of nest visits by Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis breeding in trees in Oostvaaderplassen, The Netherlands  
S. Volponi Congenital abnormalities in a Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis from Punte Alberete Natural Reserve (Po river Delta, NE Italy)

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