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: Bukaciński, Dariusz, Bukacińska, Monika, Buczyński, Arkadiusz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie 2018
• Subjects: envir; geo; River Islands; Larus canus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21697/seb.2018.16.4.01; https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/470462.pdf; https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/470462

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...