Prvý priamo zaznamenaný prípad predácie kolónií vodného vtáctva norkom americkým (Neovision vison) na Slovensku / First recorded case of direct predation of waterbird colonies by American Mink (Neovision vison) in Slovakia

The article describes first recorded occurrence of American Mink at Danube river in Slovakia in 2010 and following changes in numbers of breeding Common Terns. Their breeding numbers reached the highest value at 377 pairs in Dunajské luhy SPA in 2011. Then numbers decreased there to 185 in 2015 (by...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Štefan BENKO, Andrej CHUDÝ, Jozef RIDZOŇ
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Czech
English
Slovak
Published: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Forest Ecology 2016
Subjects:
common tern
american mink
predation
colonies
danube river
Zoology
QL1-991
Common tern
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/bffbdfb7bad045a3ad23a6c0dbc4b534
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Summary:The article describes first recorded occurrence of American Mink at Danube river in Slovakia in 2010 and following changes in numbers of breeding Common Terns. Their breeding numbers reached the highest value at 377 pairs in Dunajské luhy SPA in 2011. Then numbers decreased there to 185 in 2015 (by 51%), when the first case of predation was directly documented by camera traps in colony of 60 tern pairs.

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