2. About Heron and cormorant
Only after leaving Juodkrante Nida toward the
ground without the steep Aries hill, who is another
old grove - Herons Hill, named after the nearby
gray heron and cormorant colonies. This is one of
the largest bird colonies in Europe. 2000 years
information, it moved 582 herons and cormorants
in 1361. It is hardly possible to answer the
question when herons settled near Juodkrante?
The nineteenth century. they were in the middle of
a normal part of everyday life. It is safe to assert
that these long-legged birds lived in the
seventeenth century, or even much earlier.
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4. What prompted your move herons nesting in the northern
districts of the southern Juodkrante? Historical records tell
of their struggle with an aggressive animal - cormorants.
Cormorants, also known as the Sea of ravens „Corvus
marinus ", in Juodkrante appeared in 1803. They settled
near herons and cormorants who began to call the heron
and cormorant colony to Juodkrante these nests.
5.
6. Gradually herons were pushed to the edge. They began to
migrate south Juodkrante. After 10 years, they formed two
separate heron and cormorant colonies in the southern and
northern outskirts Juodkrante. Cormorants and gray herons
fight also describes strange cormorants and gray herons
mutual struggle, which won for the time being, cormorants
and gray herons pushed.
7.
8. Cormorants have moved their colony to the south, near the
heron. This time, the herons and cormorants relations man
intervened. Taking into account the recommendations of
the local rangers and local fishermen complaints. Prussian
government allowed exterminated black newcomers. Until
1978. great cormorants have been very rare in the
Lithuanian seaside views and in the Kuršių marios.
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10. Later in these regions from time to time it has been found
individual birds, mostly - in the spring and autumn migration
periods. Other cormorants wave reached Juodkrante 1974
- 1978 m. Non-breeding birds were observed across the
bay, in various years. Soon black birds had settled near
the heron. Gradually herons were forced to dismiss most of
their nests, this was in 1995. In 1995 they registered the
lowest number of breeding herons.
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12. It started to rotate in the first nesting cormorants in 1989.
Their abundance curve growed and stabilized. What will be
the consequences of their competition, the future will show.
Cormorants and herons are protected by law because of
their artificial reduction, so far there is no speech. Currently
cormorant birds are quite common, but their abundance
Marios is constantly increasing. Local fishermen and
foresters are not satisfied with the this birds damage.
