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Vision and Foraging in Cormorants: More like Herons than Hawks?

BACKGROUND: Great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo L.) show the highest known foraging yield for a marine predator and they are often perceived to be in conflict with human economic interests. They are generally regarded as visually-guided, pursuit-dive foragers, so it would be expected that cormoran...

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Autores principales: White, Craig R., Day, Norman, Butler, Patrick J., Martin, Graham R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1919429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17653266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000639