* Minnesota has an estimated 50,000 double-crestedcormorants including young of the year, and immature birds. There are about 16,000 nesting pairs in 39 colonies in25 counties. * There are an ...

Researchers recently fitted a South American sea bird called an imperial cormorant with a small camera, then watched stunned as it became 'superbird' -- diving 150 feet underwater in 40 seconds, ...

The double-crested cormorant is one of many seabirds that love to eat salmon. Many of the birds were driven away from East Sand Island near the mouth of the Columbia River decades ago in an effort to ...

*Originally published on October 6, 2021. Along lakeshores and sea coasts, one bird draws particularly unsettled attention from humans. The cormorant is a striking, dark bird that perches on rocks and ...

You might think there’s no safer place underwater than snugged to the side of the largest fish on Earth. But you would be wrong. Divers watched in awe as a particularly persistent bird called a ...

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