Boschetti E’s scientific contributions

... This is particularly true for the Venice lagoon, where comprehensive and simultaneous counts of all the breeding waterbirds have never been performed to date. Nevertheless, surveys dealing with herons, gulls, terns and waders have been made several times since the 1980s; I choose three periods (1990-1992; 2000-2002; 2012-2014) for which the available data are more detailed (Amato et al. 1994;Valle et al. 1996;Mezzavilla and Scarton 2002;Scarton et al. 2005Scarton et al. , 2013bScarton and Valle 2015). Data for the period 2012-2014 were collected by the author and colleagues through frequent field surveys made each year from May to July or, in a few cases, are personal estimates based on opportunistic observations. ...

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Long-term trend of the waterbird community breeding in a heavily man-modified coastal lagoon: the case of the important bird area “Lagoon of Venice”

... Preliminary analysis of data collected for the monitoring of colonial waterbirds in the Po Delta Regional Park report more than 600 breeding pairs in 2004 (Volponi 2004). Nowadays, while nesting is still restricted to Punte Alberete and the Lagoon of Venice (Associazione Faunisti Veneti 2004), from late summer to mid winter high numbers are regularly recorded in the central Po Delta where birds disperse after breeding (Borgo et al. 2003). Colour-ringing showed that birds born at Punte Alberete regularly move to the Po Delta and may breed in the Lagoon of Venice. ...

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Global population development of the Pygmy Cormorant Phalacrocorax pygmeus. Overview of available data and proposal to set up a network of national specialists.