The soaring population of Great Cororants (Phalacrocorax carbo carbo and Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) has become a pressing challenge for European aquaculture and aquatic biodiversity. Over the past ...

This cormorant somehow manages to gulp down a fish that's even bigger than its head! How do these birds swallow their food whole like that?

The proposal notes that the great cormorants’ (Phalacrocorax carbo) increasing population and expanding range in Europe have caused a decline in fish stocks and loss in aquaculture production in ...

ABSTRACT Toll-like receptors 3 and 7 (TLR3 and 7) mediate immune responses through the recognition of viral single-stranded RNA and double-stranded RNA and therefore play important roles in host ...

Although the biologically flexible flippers of the cormorant (Phalacrocorax) are believed to be one of the most important features to achieve optimal swimming performance before take off, studies on a ...

A new species of the genus Andracantha Schmidt, 1975, parasite of Neotropical cormorants, Phalacrocorax brasilianus (Gmelin, 1789), is described and compared to the other six species currently placed ...

Among them are the guanay cormorant (Leucocarbo bougainvillii), the Peruvian booby (Sula variegata), the red-legged cormorant (Phalacrocorax gaimardi), the Inca tern (Larosterna inca), the sea ...

Jepsen, N. and Rasmussen, G. (2024) Stream Salmonids on the Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) Menu. In Fish & Fisheries Series, Springer, 241-254.

More than 60 bird species have been recorded here, including the vulnerable papyrus yellow warbler (Calamonastides gracilirostris), and large breeding colonies of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax ...

The UAE has identified nine globally significant key biodiversity areas (KBA) that are home to numerous endangered plants and animals, the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE ...

Our line of papers revealed that the common (great) cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) possesses two isoforms of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (ccAHR1 and ccAHR2). This paper addresses in vitro tests of ...