Threats and the active protection of birds in a riverbed: postulates for the strategy of the preservation of the middle Vistula River avifauna

• Published in: Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
• Main Authors: Dariusz Bukaciński, Monika Bukacińska, Arkadiusz Buczyński
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Polish
• Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego 2018
• Subjects: middle Vistula River; gulls and terns; active protection; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Philosophy (General); B1-5802; River Islands; Larus canus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2018.16.4.01; https://doaj.org/article/30ae4b9dc07348d898549ded1d13740e

Over the past 34 years, threats to Charadriiform birds inhabiting islands in the Vistula riverbed, mainly gulls, terns and plovers, have changed considerably. While in 1985-1994 the main risks for their breeding were found to be flood waters, predation by the hooded crow Corvus corone cornix and the...