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.

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 ...

These cormorants have short stubby wings, and with those wings, can dive to amazing depths. Other than that, they resemble our double-crested cormorants.

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, lay an ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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. Why it matters ...

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 ...

Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests. Black birds roost on the girders, evenly spaced as beads on a string, then take wing: double-crested cormorants.