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Résumé :
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Thanks to a limited number of pioneers French ornithology has, since the last century, contributed to the general knowledge of seabirds. Until recently however, interest in seabirds in France was almost restricted to reserve management and, for some enthusiasts, to sea-watching. Things rapidly evolved, mainly under the impulse of problems linked to the important development of Larus argentatus/cachinnans populations, sea-pollution and the dramatic decline of auks. Change in concerns became strongly evident in the mid-1970’s. Research on seabirds has since spread out in many directions, including taxonomy, field-identification, reproductive biology, population dynamics, relations with fisheries, ethology.
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