Cormorants have been the bane of fishermen since time immemorial. They are a very recognizable black and gray seabird with a very long neck and a voracious appetite for fish. These birds can be seen ...

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 ...

The murky mocha-colored water in Lake Augusta is as off-putting as the source of its pollution: bird droppings, lots of them. Every fall, thousands of migrating double-crested cormorants roost in the ...

Humans and birds have a rich and complex history together. Some birds, like the carrier pigeon or the bald eagle, have stronger ties to us than most. The cormorant, believe it or not, is one of these ...

A new study from the Oregon Department of Transportation recommends relocating nesting colonies of double-crested cormorants from the Astoria-Megler Bridge about 8 miles downriver to East Sand ...

Have you ever been so hungry that you don’t even bother to chew? That kind of approach is an everyday thing for cormorants, a family of seabirds that dine exclusively on fish and swallow them whole.

The PLASMIG research project is funded by the European Union via a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action postdoctoral fellowship awarded to Suzanne Bonamour. In response to rising temperatures (estimated at ...

Cormorant fishing has been a fishing method in Japan and China for over 1,300 years. Commercially popular fishing methods put the tradition at risk of disappearing. More sediment, falling water levels ...

The battle against cormorants, blamed by some for reducing game fish populations in several Minnesota lakes, will expand to Lake Vermilion this spring, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ...

A eucalyptus tree in a Marina del Rey park that was home to dozens of soon-to-hatch double-crested cormorant eggs became unstable after strong winds, prompting a rescue mission to remove the eggs ...