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Ceria keeps a bird identification guide at the ready aboard his 18-ft Starcraft pontoon boat powered by a 25-hp Mercury BigFoot 4-stroke motor, and he's always watchful for unusual winged visitors like the great cormorant (as opposed to the more common double crested) or the purple sandpiper that occasionally turn up there. Isolation of the West Nile fever virus from the great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo, the crow Corvus corone, and Hyalomma marginatum ticks associated with them in natural and synanthroic biocenosis in the Volga delta (Astrakhan region, 2001). In the coastal area of the delta, the most important hosts are shore birds, especially the Gressores order: the green heron (Nicticorax nicticorax, 45% of which had antibodies), great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), coot (Fulica atra), waterhen (Gallinula chloropus), and great grebe (Podiceps cristatus), and to a lesser extent gulls and terns (10). |
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