Only six skin specimens of the spectacled cormorant are known to exist. Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London Only six skin specimens of the spectacled cormorant are known to ...

Tokyo — The "shrine island" of Miyajima is one of Japan's most iconic destinations. A quick ferry ride from downtown Hiroshima, the postcard-perfect locale is much-loved for its giant "floating" ...

The double-crested cormorant wins no prizes for beauty or popularity, but it might win prizes for abundance and for fish eating. Therein rests the cormorant's problem with the other prizes. The bird ...

In the amazing Instagram post above, you get a close-up of a cormorant struggling with its meal. The aquatic bird is floating on the ocean’s surface, tossing a huge fish around in its long beak! The ...

In October, we see large flocks of birds moving in broken lines across the skies that don’t keep the strict formation of geese. These are the cormorants, our summer resident double-crested cormorants, ...

Potato Island on Lake Vermilion is a study in black and white. Cormorants and herring gulls nest on the barren, half-acre island in the eastern basin of the lake. Herring gulls have been nesting on ...

Large flocks of cormorants have been spotted in recent days at the estuary coastal area near Thoothukudi Port. This estuarine region, where seawater and freshwater converge, offers a rich habitat with ...

GRAND FORKS – The Red River Greenway continues to trick me. The other evening, I walked up the 47th Avenue South Greenway access and immediately noticed a big, black bird perched in a snag in a tree ...