Post-Breeding Dispersion and Migratory Routes of Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus Crispus), Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax Carbo) and Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea Leucorodia) from the North of Sinoe Lagoon (Danube Delta)

Abstract

In the period 2003-2006, a series of bird markings were performed in nesting colonies from the northern part of the Sinoie lagoon in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. We marked with colour plastic and metal rings nestlings of breeding species as Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus Bruch, 1832), Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo Linnaeus, 1758) and the Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus, 1758). We already published a series of preliminary results for Great Cormorant and the Eurasian Spoonbill (Kiss et al., 2007; Sándor et al., 2009), here we follow the publishing of recoveries received after 2009. This paper contains the results obtained after this date, integrating the information obtained from the other marked species, the Dalmatian Pelican, which was not previously discussed. At the same time, for a better interpretation of the results, a brief summary of the results from the previous phase is made.

Keywords

• dispersal
• colonial birds
• migration
• wintering
• wetland