WI - Cormorant Research Group The Bulletin - No. 6, July 2005 created on 13-09-2005

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CORMORANT RESEARCH GROUP BULLETIN
Number 6 - July 2005



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Contents

Editorial and CRG news

Announcements

  • After REDCAFE: an interdisciplinary approach to European Cormorant-Fisheries 4 conflicts (INTERCAFE) - Dave Carss & Mariella Marzano
  • Monography: Cormorants and Fisheries - Florian Moellers
  • CRG meeting in Switzerland, November 2005 - Verena Keller & Mennobart van Eerden

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Original papers
Stuart E. Newson & Baz Hughes Delayed breeding during harsh weather events in the Great Cormorant

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Geoffroy Evrard, Frédéric Dermien, Patrice de Gottal, André Monmart, Francis Pourignaux, Philippe Vanmeerbeeck & Jean-Yves Paquet Variability of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo morning dispersal during winter time

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Péter Szinai The Present Status of Pygmy Cormorant Phalacrocorax pygmeus in Hungary

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Paul Voskamp, Stefano Volponi & Stef van Rijn Global population development of the Pygmy Cormorant Phalacrocorax pygmaeus. Overview of available data and appeal to set up a network of national specialists

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Ahmad Barati & Behnam Balmaki Status of Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo in Northern Iran: Population Changes and Ringing Plan

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Abdul Jamil Urfi & M. Mahindiran A review of Cormorants in India and a note on the Cormorant heronries of the Delhi Zoo

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Nicola Baccetti & Michele Giunti Italian counts of wintering Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo at the turn of the millennium

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H. Azafzaf, N. Baccetti, P. Defos du Rau, H. Dlensi, M.F.A. Essghaier, K.S. Etayeb, Hamza & M. Smart Wintering Cormorants in Libya 46
Verena Keller & Marcel Burkhardt Number and distribution of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo in Switzerland in January 2003 48
Rosemarie Parz-Gollner First Pan-European Cormorant midwinter census – January 2003 52
Ahmad Barati & Behnam Balmaki Reproductive Permorfance in Great Cormorants at Ramsar Colony, Northern Iran 55
Tayla Coelho G. de Oliveira Preferable habitats of the Phalacrocorax brasilianus

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Ringing studies
  • A new colour-ringing project of Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) in Wallonia (Southern Belgium) - Jean-Yves Paquet
  • Current colour-riniging projects on Cormorants in the UK - Richard Clarke, Alan Lauder & Stuart Newson
  • Ringing of Cormorants in Norman coastal colonies (France) - Gérard Debout & Guillaume Debout
  • Cormorants colour ringing in Jeziorsko Natural Reserve, Central Poland - Krzysztof Kaczmarek, Piotr Minias, Anna Kleszcz, Tomasz Janiszewski, Michalina Mik³os & Maciej Rakowski
  • Others

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