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, ...

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.

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 station helped save a double-crested cormorant found on Miami Beach. A good Samaritan found the water bird with two fish weights lodged in his stomach and a third piercing his wing.

A eucalyptus tree in a Marina del Rey park was home to dozens of double-crested cormorant eggs. But strong winds caused the tree to split, prompting a rescue mission.

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.

They are two of Florida's most iconic waterbirds, who look and behave similarly, but it turns out the anhinga and the ...

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.

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 ...