Cormorants are seen on the vast majority of seawatches at Skogsøy and are one of the commonest birds there. The spring migration picks up in late March and continues well into May before it drops off rapidly. The autumn migration is a much more protracted affair commencing in late August and continuing well into November.

There are a number of interesting migration patterns I will be looking into in 2006, such as the timing of the migration for various ages (it seems non-breeders also head north....).

Numbers at Skogsøy far outweigh those at the better known Utsira - probably largely because this species tends to hug the coast during its migration.

The blue line shows number of visits, the orange one the number of visits when Cormorant have been recorded and the green one shows the average numbers I have recorded in any three day period.

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Maximum: 3000!




References
Tveit, B.O., Mobakken, G. og Bryne, O. 2004 Fugler og fuglafolk på Utsira. Utsira Fuglestasjon

Links
Wetlands International
Cormorant Research Group

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