Большой баклан на южном берегу и западе Крыма

Abstract

Original and already published materials on the Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) - a numerous and important for economy bird species of the Crimea are summarized in present paper. This publication is based on materials, collected by the authors in 1983-2008, archives and literary sources, and also data-base on ring recoveries from the birds, ringed in the Azov-Black Sea region was analyzed. The study area covers Kalamitskiy Bay and the Crimean coast of Karkinitskiy Bay, the western part of the mountain Crimea, including its southern coast from Sevastopol to village of Malorechenskoe.