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

General information

Name Rob Schuckard
Organisation Ornithological Society of New Zealand
Mail address RD Rai Valley, New Zealand
Email rschckrd@xtra.co.nz

Expertise

Interested in cormorants as
X Amateur
Professional
Species of specific expertise
None
Cormorants - Phalacrocoracidae
Great cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo
Pygmy cormorant - P. pygmeus
European shag - P. aristotelis
Double-crested cormorant - P. auritus
X King (Rough-faced) shag - P. (Leucocarbo) carunculatus
Fields of interests
X Breeding ecology
X Counting & Censusing
X Population dynamics

Current activity

1 Identifying feeding areas
2 Monitoring of the population trends
3 Monitoring survival rate

Literature

1 New Zealand King Shag on Duffers Reef. Notornis 41: 93-108.
2 Status of New Zealand King Shag. Paper AGM OSNZ May 1998
3 King Shag a species on the edge (in prep.)