1. Australian Cormorants: FAMILY : Cormorants

2. • Cormorants consume commercially reared fish • Cormorants destroy trees and natural vegetation • Cormorants can displace desired nesting birds and animals • Cormorants pose hazards to aircraft

3. Pelagic Cormorants nest in colonies, which are smaller than those of other Cormorants

4. ‘Petrels, Albatrosses, cormorants, frigatebirds, gulls etc

5. We'd see Goldfinch and Cormorants, Woodcocks.

6. Along the shorelines of northeastern North America, burly Great Cormorants mix in with slimmer, more abundant Double-crested Cormorants

7. Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large seabirds

8. Cormorants can be pretty nasty with their beaks.

9. Maybe the cormorants were staying home today.

10. Anhingas are often mistaken for Double-Breasted Cormorants

11. Dark, Buzzardlike cormorants roost in its stunted trees

12. Cormorants build nests of seaweed, reed and twigs

13. Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large seabirds

14. Conclusively, Cormorants are not the hawks of the ocean.

15. Today, six species of Cormorants live in North America

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17. Cormorants have relatively short wings due to their need to swim

18. Cormorants have big webbed feet and are built to swim

19. Like other Cormorants their plumage has limited waterproofing, and they

20. Seemingly misnamed, pelagic Cormorants are rarely seen far from land

21. The Cormorants are excellent at catching fish which is their main diet

22. Fishermen, cormorants and sea eagles were not slow to discover this fact.

23. Double-crested Cormorants do not nest until they are three years old.

24. Anhingas have a more pointed bill than cormorants which allows them to …

25. Cormorants breed in colonies ranging from several pairs to a few thousand

26. Cormorants and Anhingas both make Big Cypress National Preserve home year-round

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28. GEOGRAPHIC RANGE: Double-crested Cormorants can be found from the Aleutian Islands in …

29. Double-crested Cormorants are large waterbirds with small heads on long, kinked necks

30. Cormorants can detect individual prey only at close range (less than 3 feet)

31. Anhingas and cormorants are extremely similar as regards their body and leg skeletons

32. Swimming among the flooded trees are great rafts of cormorants, often 000 strong.

33. Do Cormorants damage vegetation in rookery areas where large numbers of Cormorants nest? The natural vegetation at all waterbird colonies typically dies from the long term accumulation of guano at the site

34. And the water is again perfectly blue, the gulls and cormorants fishing as always.

35. Cormorants’ feathers instead get waterlogged, allowing the bird to sink and dive more efficiently

36. Cormorants and Shags (Phalacrocoracidae) Taxonomically, a cormorant and a shag is a distinction without a difference

37. Cormorants are large birds with long, flexible necks, short, rounded wings, and wedge-shaped tails

38. Cormorants are healthy and thriving then the environment is healthy and thriving Living in conflict

39. The Cormorants are the best divers, so the pelicans arrange themselves in a large circle at some great distance from the land, and flap their great wings on the surface of the water, while the Cormorants …

40. The great cormorant is the largest of the Cormorants and can weigh over 7 pounds.

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42. Cormorants nest in large colonies in trees, rocks, and cliffs, as well as man-made structures

43. These Cormorants surpassed their double-crested cousins in 2008 and have maintained the lead ever since

44. Icebergs that last for a week or longer provide perches for bald eagles, cormorants and gulls.

45. Cormorants are marine birds that can become an overwhelming problem for boaters and waterfront property owners

46. It is one of six species of Cormorants in North America and one of 38 species worldwide

47. Claims that Cormorants are “overabundant” is a perception based more on socio-political than on ecological factors

48. Cormorants have rebounded from historic lows in the 1970s, after suffering steep declines because of exposure to environmental contaminants

49. While pros at swimming, the Cormorants’ waterlogged feathers often make it look as if they are struggling in water.

50. The Cormorants are also often labeled as culprits when it comes to raiding aquaculture producers of fish

51. However, to those new to birding, Cormorants (or shags as they are sometimes known) can be confusing

52. Darters (anhinga), which are very close relatives of cormorants, are also used for this fishing technique on occasion.

53. The northern populations are often called Mexican or Olivaceous Cormorants, and many authors treat these as a separate species, P

54. Double-crested Cormorants are common year round, both on the coast and on inland waters of western Washington

55. SIZE: Double-crested Cormorants measure 28 to 35 inches in length with a wingspan of 45 to 48 Inches

56. Cormorants can be found either on the coast or at inland waters, where there are some large breeding colonies.

57. Cormorants can be found either on the coast or at inland waters, where there are some large breeding colonies

58. Highly adapted to an aquatic environment (eg, all toes are connected by a web), Cormorants are awkward on land.

59. But unlike the cormorants, Anhingas typically inhabit fresh water lakes, rivers, marshes, swamps, and are less often found near salt water

60. Occasionally, they turn up inland along rivers and lakes, but usually alone (Cormorants are often seen in groups inland)

61. Cormorants are fish eaters and will usually dive in the water using their feet and wings to propel themselves

62. Along the shore, beautiful waterbirds, such as little blue herons, great egrets, ospreys, anhingas, and cormorants, go about their daily business.

63. On average, double-crested Cormorants live for about 6 years, but 19-year-old birds have been documented in the wild

64. These large-billed, blocky-headed Cormorants have a white throat patch and in breeding season a white patch on the thigh

65. Cormorants have a long hook-tipped bill, patches of bare skin on the face, and a small gular sac (throat pouch)

66. The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir.

67. While Cormorants are normally protected by law, the European Bird Directive allows countries to take action against Cormorants (derogations), including killing the birds, where the birds are causing serious damage to a site, or there is a reasonable expectation that this will happen, and where there are no other satisfactory solutions.

68. "Cormorants are highly adaptable birds and, we wish to learn more about them," added Larisa Harding, program manager for Terrestrial Research

69. Double-crested Cormorants have a body length of 29 to 36 inches, a wingspan of about 54 inches, and weigh 4 to 6 pounds

70. The Anhingas (Anhinga Anhinga) are found in the warmer parts of the Americas.They are members of the darter family and are related to pelicans and cormorants.

71. Instead of Cawings of Cormorants, in a former paper, you have printed cooings, too dove-like a word for the birds intended.9 1

72. Cormorants are pellet-makers, creating pellets out of the bones and scales of the fish they eat, then spitting them out, just like some owls

73. Like the cormorants, it has wettable feathers and it is often found perched on a rock or branch with its wings held open to dry.

74. Within years, biologists observed with some surprise the return of scores of striped bass, alewives, American shad, Atlantic salmon, sturgeon, ospreys, kingfishers , cormorants and bald eagles.

75. Imperial Cormorants are marine birds found in cold Patagonian waters from southern Chile and Argentina to the Antarctic Peninsula and islands such as the Falklands and South Georgia

76. However, it is also placed in its own family (Protoplotidae) and might be a basal member of the Sulae and/or close to the common ancestor of cormorants and darters.

77. A total of 17 different groups of seabirds were taken into account, including: loons, grebes, fulmars and petrels, shearwaters, pelicans, cormorants, shorebirds, gulls and kittawakes, terns, skimmers, and Alcids

78. While the darters' lack of many display behaviors is shared with gannets (and that of a few with cormorants), these are all symplesiomorphies that are absent in frigatebirds, tropicbirds and pelicans also.

79. The number of birds nesting in that island chain is less than a third of what it was at its peak, but fisheries biologists at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources estimate that Cormorants

80. The Cormorants are a fairly large family of fisheaters residing along freshwater and saltwater shores around the world, yet all are so closely related that all are usually placed within a single genus Phalacrocorax