Humans and birds have a rich and complex history together. Some birds, like the carrier pigeon or the bald eagle, have ...

The murky mocha-colored water in Lake Augusta is as off-putting as the source of its pollution: bird droppings, lots of them.

Other than that, they resemble our double-crested cormorants. They also spend hours drying their bodies and wings in the sun on rocks and promontories before they can catch their next meal.

The double-crested cormorant is a blackish brown bird, with a bald, light yellow face and dark beak with a hook on the end of the top beak, which aids in capturing their prey.

Today, there are about 5,500 double-crested cormorants across the entire estuary, compared to an average of around 13,000 during the heyday of the East Sand Island colony in the 2000′s and 2010′s.

On average, double-crested cormorants live 10 to 15 years in the wild, although one banded bird lived to a ripe 23 years. They are monogamous, begin breeding between two and five years old, ...

The Pelican Harbor Seabird Station released a Double-crested Cormorant back into the wild Thursday after it survived a slashing injury to its<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

At its 2013 peak, this was the largest double-crested cormorant colony in North America, with some 30,000 birds, more than 40% of the species’ population in the western U.S., according to the Corps.

Dozens of double-crested cormorant chicks and eggs were rescued from a wind-damaged tree in Marina del Rey and are now getting around-the-clock care, officials announced Monday.

The double-crested cormorant is a large bird weighing 3.7 pounds with a wing span of 52 inches and a length of 33 inches. They spend most of their time sitting on piers or tree branches that will ...

Double-crested cormorants are colonial nesters, meaning they build nests close together, usually in large numbers, and in elevated areas near water as their diet mainly consists of fish, ...