Migration and winter movements of Double-crested Cormorants breeding in Georgian Bay, Ontario

Waterbirds

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 451-460

  Scherr, Heidi ^a   Bowman, Jeff ^a   Abraham, Kenneth F ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

aquaculture; Double crested Cormorants; foraging; Great Cormorants; home range; migration; satellite telemetry; staging areas; winter

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BREEDING SITE; COASTAL ZONE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; LATITUDE; MIGRATION ROUTE; MOVEMENT; PHILOPATRY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEABIRD; WINTER;

CANADA; GEORGIAN BAY; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS; PHALACROCORAX CARBO;

EID: 78651427247     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.033.0404     Document Type: Article

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