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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...