21/02/2025
Thomas Cansse wrote a blog post for Seabird tracking, discussing his latests reasearch on black-faced cormorants.
“Black-faced Cormorants (Phalacrocorax fuscescens) are endemic to Australia and only breed in a limited number of locations, often on offshore islands. Until recently, little was known about their ecology and, due to a lack of tracking data, nothing was known about their movements, habitat use, and foraging behaviour. To address this gap, we tracked Black-faced Cormorants breeding on Notch Island (northern Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia) using GPS-GSM loggers or GPS loggers with pressure sensors over four consecutive breeding seasons. This enabled the study of both movements and dive behaviour.”
You can read the full story here.
Image credits: Thomas Cansse.
