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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
 

European Cormorant Mid/winter census: focal dates 17-18 January 2009
- extended period 15-25 January -
below please download the Information leaflet + the counting form
English version
announcement & info - interactive pdf form - xls form - both forms zipped / versione italiana istruzioni pdf e scheda rilevamento dati compilabile xls zippato

here dowload a pdf leaflet with a
Summary of the first data analysis with new updated information on distribution in winter and summer (breeding) seasons

here download
materials (forms, instruction, list of national coordinators) for counting and reporting breeding colony data

1st pan-Euroepan count of wintering cormorants (January 2003 census) and breeding colonies (2006 census)
the final results will appear in the Villeneuve conference proceedings (we are working on this issue ...)

Information & news on the Intercafe project an EU - COST Action
Intercafe COST Action fact-sheet versions in
English as well as in several other European languages in the Intercafe website

Download the final report of the Redcafe EU project

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From Countries all over the World
From Species - Newsletter of the IUCN Species Survival Commission

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Phalacrocoracidae: population estimates -
Great Cormorant: diet - prey - breeding colonies in Europe

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