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To Promote the Knowledge of the Ecology and Life History of Cormorants
(Aves - Phalacrocoracidae)
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Cormorant Research Group
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Last updated: 05-01-2012

Research & Methods

Colour-ringing projects
Eggshell thickness measurements: methods & background
How to: census breeding colonies
How to: distinguish the sinensis race from the nominate P. c. carbo
Techniques for assessing diet and food intake

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The 8th International Conference on Cormorants / 5th Meeting of IUCN-Wetlands International Cormorant Research Group
was successfully held in
Medemblik, on the shore of the Ijsselmeer, The Netherlands from 24 to 27 November 2011.
More than 50 people from 22 countries attended the meeting; in the next weeks more insight on the meeting will be uploaded

[2011/12/27] the Villenuve Proceedings (front cover) can be downloaded here as a single pdf file (13.6 MB);
in the next days the full volume will be split in different pdf files to make easy the download

Bregnballe T., Volponi S. van Eerden M., van Rijn S.and & Lorentsen S-H. 2011. Status of the breeding population of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo in the Western Palearctic in 2006.
Pp. 8-20 in Proc. 7th Intern. Conf. on Cormorants (pdf file 255 Kb)

van Eerden M., Marion L. and Parz-Gollner R. 2011. Results of the Pan-European census of wintering Great Cormorants in Europe, January 2003.
Pp. 21-32 in Proc. 7th Intern. Conf. on Cormorants (pdf file 346 Kb)

CorMan and Cormorant counts in the western Palearctic

CorMan is a new initiative taken by the European Commission. One of the main goals of this new initiative is to collaborate with the Cormorant Research Group in order to assess the number and distribution of great cormorants in Europe during breeding and winter. The aim of the joint cormorant count project Cormorant Counts in the western Palearctic is to organise a pan-European census of breeding colonies in 2012 and a census of winter roosts in January 2013. More information about the project will come out in early September.

The new initiative CorMan also has the aim of developing a website (platform) under DG Environment. The website is available through this link. The main aim of the Platform is to disseminate information about cormorants, cormorant numbers, management and conflicts related to cormorants, fish, fisheries and aquaculture. The Platform will be extended and more material will be added during 2012 and 2013. Contacts between CorMan and relevant stakeholder groups has been established through a Stakeholders’ Liaison Group.

Report on the adoption of a European Cormorant Management Plan to minimise the increasing impact of cormorants on fish stocks, fishing and aquaculture EU Parliament motion (2008/2177(INI))

(2010.10.21) - State of the World Waterbirds 2010. Compiled by> S. Delany, S. Nagy & N. Davidson. Published by: Wetlands International www.wetlands.org

The Wildlife & Landscape Management Unit of the Zurich University carried out a project where measures to minimise damage on fishing nets caused by cormorants were tested in a lowland lake in Switzerland. The full report is available on the website of the Federal Office for the Environment http://www.bafu.admin.ch/dokumentation/medieninformation
/00962/index.html?lang=de&msg-id=34077

[2011-09-20] - The 7th issue of the CRG bulletin has been distributed to the more than 500 addresses included in the member list and can be downloaded here (pdf version)

Summary of the first data analysis with new updated information on Great cormorant (P. carbo) distribution in Europe during the winter and summer (breeding) seasons

Papers & Reports on winter counts held in various European countries in 2003 and 2009 can be found here

Intercafe project 2004-2008 EU - 635 COST Action
fact-sheets in English and several other European languages in the Intercafe website

Download the final reports of the 2000-2002 Redcafe EU project

The Group Bulletin

Resources

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Films & Videos

Kormorane: Viel Geschrei um schwarze Vögel. (Film. In German - time 50.18).
European shag in Spain (Video. Spanish with English subtitles - time 10.22')
Immature Great cormorant preening with uropygial oil (Video clip - time 0.31')
Brandt's Cormorant diving for fish (Video clip - time 0.48')

News & Projects

From Countries all over the World (not updated)
The magazine of the IUCN Species Survival Commission about the Species Programme aimed to produce, maintain and manage The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - the latest and previous issues of the Species Magazine

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