2. Sengirėje is the other name of the
receipt from the Heron hill located
nearby Heron and Cormorant
colonies. This is one of the largest
colonies of these birds across
Europe. Data of the year is 2000, it
switched 582.
Colonies
3.
4. What led the herons to move their nesting from the Northern to the southern
juodkrantė? Historical sources tells us about their struggle with an
aggressive entrant in cormorants. Cormorants appeared in 1803. They
settled close to the herons and cormorants and Herons began to move the
cormorants' colony to Juodkrante. Herons were gradually moved to the
periphery. They began to migrate south of Juodkrante after 10 years under
two separate colonies of herons and cormorants on the northern edge of the
southern colonies and Juodkrante.
5. Cormorants and herons fighting
It is a strange fight between cormorants and herons. Cormorants have
moved their colony to the South near the herons. To 1978 Great cormorants
have been very rare in Lithuania, in the Curonian Lagoon, they're guests at
the seaside as well. Later in these areas from time to time, occur only
isolated birds, mostly in spring and autumn migration periods.
6. Another wave of the cormorants reached the Juodkrante in 1974-1978.
Gradually, the herons were forced to give up a significant part of their
nesting when, in 1995, when it's recorded the lowest amount of farming to
the herons.
Now, side by side, there are two colonies of herons and cormorants. In
2002, the accounting data was 500 pairs of herons and 2,000 pairs of
cormorant. Cormorants and herons are protected by the law.
7. In accordance with the requirements of this procedure describes the issue
of permits, in the territories of the fish farms in 2005, Hunter-style about
10,000 units. Cormorants. 2007-2013 the Ministry of finance, the cormorant
was launched for regulating the abundance of sounds and instruments 5
colony visual cooling from 20 to 55% of ovary. 2007-2013 Lithuania
Cormorant colony chilled 10724 in five ovary. Ovary average in Lithuania –
3 eggs, a total of measures are dead in almost 32 thousand cormorants
progeny.
8. These measures have allowed to restrict the population recovered on the
big cormoran and spread. It features the same measures as adopted and
approved by 2010, the use of protected species description of procedure:
using audio and Visual Tools, streamer is frozen, impersonation of the
hunting.
9. Cormorant droppings have killed all the pines, now dominated by shrubs or
deciduous self-contained alder. Wildlife Research Center conducts
ecosystem analyses, the colony here annually carried out detailed accounts
of farming. Sengirės place of cormorants effecting the procedure of the
experiment that has started to restore the forest. Environmentalists keen to
keep this and other colonies, but their size and abundance of farming
couples will be monitored, if necessary, adjusted.
