North America’s largest and most urban double-crested cormorant colony shows how people can share space with an unfairly ...

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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.

The double-crested cormorant has its two crests of fluffy white feathers, visible only during breeding time, and field guides all show a side view which show only one crest.

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.

Not in many decades — perhaps never — had a pair of double-crested cormorants built a nest and produced young in Connecticut But in 1979, a pair mated and raised young on East White Rock, a ...

COLUMBUS A federal agency is seeking public comment through Jan. 15 before it potentially authorizes the deaths of double-crested cormorants or destruction of their nests across Ohio.. The lanky ...