WI - Cormorant Research Group Researchers' directory updated on 20-09-2002

General information

Name Dr. Stuart Newson
Organisation British Trust for Ornithology - www.bto.org
Mail address Thetford, Norfolk, IP24+2PU United Kingdom
Email stuart.newson@bto.org
Telephone 01842+750050
Fax 01842+750030

Expertise

Interested in cormorants as
Amateur
X Professional
Species of specific expertise
None
Cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae)
X Great cormorant (P. carbo)
Pygmy cormorant (P. pygmeus)
European shag (P. aristotelis)
Double-crested cormorant (P. auritus)
Fields of interests
X Breeding ecology
Conservation & Management
X Counting & Censusing
X Movements & Migration
X Population dynamics
X Taxonomy
X Trapping & Ringing

Current activity

1 Monitoring reproductive performance of cormorants in the UK
2 Geographic variation within P. c. carbo and P. c. sinensis in Europe
3 Censusing inland breeding cormorants in the UK
4 Modelling colonisation and range expansion of cormorants
5 Coordinator of the colour-ringing project in UK

Literature

1 Hughes B, J. Bruce, G. R. Ekins & Newson S. 2000. Movements and distribution of inland breeding Cormorants in England. English Nature Research Report No 360.
2 Newson S.E. 2000. Colonisation and range expansion of inland breeding great cormorants Phalacrocrax carbo in England. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bristol.