Beobachtungen an einer gemischten Kolonie von Silbermöwe (Larus argentatus Pont.) und Heringsmöwe (Larus fuscus graellsii Brehm)

1938 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Richter
Bird-Banding ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
D. S. Farner ◽  
Knud Paludan

Ornis Svecica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2–4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olof Olsson ◽  
Jonas Hentati-Sundberg

The island of Stora Karlsö hosts the largest colonies of fish-eating seabirds in the Baltic Sea. However, recent and reliable estimates of the number of breeding pairs of the main species have been missing. Based on a complete census in 2014, we estimated the number of Common Guillemots Uria aalge to 15,700 pairs, more than half (up to 70%) of the Baltic Sea population. The number has almost tripled since the early 1970s and the increase has been particularly strong the last 11 years, with an annual increase of 5.1%. We counted 24,600 individual adult Razorbills Alca torda and estimated it to correspond to a maximum of 12,300 pairs in 2015–2016 (census over two seasons). The colony has grown strongly; on average by 5.6% annually since the early 1970s, and Stora Karlsö now hosts up to 30% of the Baltic Sea population. Stora Karlsö also hosts colonies with about 300 pairs each of Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus and Herring Gull Larus argentatus. The gulls’ trends are negative, with an average annual decline the last 10-year period by 5.0% and 6.2%, respectively.


1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. ENSOR ◽  
J. G. PHILLIPS

SUMMARY The pituitary prolactin levels were measured in the domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos) and in juvenile gulls from a mixed population of herring and lesser black-backed gulls. In the domestic duck the pituitary prolactin levels increased on the 2nd and 3rd days of maintenance on 0·3 m-NaCl, but by the 5th day they had fallen appreciably below the control levels. Maintenance of gulls with 0·3 m-NaCl produced no change in pituitary prolactin levels after 5 days, but a marked fall in prolaction levels when the birds were maintained on 0·7 m-NaCl for 5 days. This difference in response between the two species may be related to their degree of adaptation to a marine environment.


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