When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone ...

California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is intended to control dust and provide habitat for birds.

Little Galloo is home to the double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus, named for a pair of cowlicks that make a brief appearance on males at the start of the breeding season (see photograph ...

Florida’s wetlands are home to two striking and often confused waterbirds – the anhinga and the double-crested cormorant. Both are expert divers that rely on their feet to propel themselves underwater ...

Double-crested cormorants, or DCCOs in birder-speak, have their own family, but are closely related to anhingas. Both are primitive diving birds well-adapted to their ecological niche, which is ...

Double-crested cormorants are large water birds with webbed feet. The species has made a rebound in the Great Lakes region since the 1960s, having been extirpated from Michigan as a breeding ...

So, let’s learn a few things about the cormorant. There are approximately 40 different species of cormorants in the world. The most common in North America is the double-crested cormorant, so let’s ...

Double-crested cormorant. Double-crested cormorants are common in Ocala and frequently in the company of Anhingas, which share a similar shape and size. Remember “C for curved bill” to distinguish ...

You might even see them with their fishing buddy, the double-crested cormorant, and ponder their symbiotic relationship. John Hartig is a board member at the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy . He serves ...

Double-crested cormorants were almost driven to extinction by DDT, the insecticide that caused reproductive failure. But after it was banned by the United States in 1972, the population spiked.

The Double-crested Cormorant forms its nest of sea-weeds, some sticks, moss, and clods of earth, with grass adhering to them, which it piles up into a solid mass, often as high as three feet from the ...