A double-crested cormorant showing its breeding crests, orange throat, and aquamarine eyes. Photo Rick Lewis. While many double-crested cormorants have white breeding crests, some are dark.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, ...

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 young ...