Combining biometrics and genetics to distinguish two subspecies of the Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo carbo and P. c. sinensis at an inland lake in southeast Norway
Finn Audun Grøndahl,
Arild Johnsen
Abstract:Cover photo: Adult Great Cormorant of the subspecies Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis in breeding plumage. Photo: Frode Falkenberg.
Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo are now regularly seen in inland watercourses in southeast Norway, after the P. c. sinensis subspecies first established breeding colonies in coastal south Norway in 1996. Although both the sinensis and carbo subspecies occur, the ratio between them is unknown. We tested the accuracy of subspecific identification based on biometrics and genetic ana… Show more
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