Europe's great cormorant has recovered from near-extinction to overabundance in half a century, stoking a long-running debate ...

UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--When masters call out to a flock of Japanese cormorants, the birds return to the bank of a man-made pond, their throats bulging with fish. The scene resembles the traditional ...

A tragic effort to rescue a young double-crested cormorant, who was found on Fort Myers Beach visibly ill, did not turn out ...

The world’s largest cormorant went extinct almost 200 years ago – but almost nothing is known about its life. A recent dive into the collections of museums around the world is helping to piece ...

The flightless Galapagos cormorant is one of a diverse array of animals that live on the Galapagos Islands, which piqued Charles Darwin’s scientific curiosity in the 1830s. He hypothesized that ...

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Cormorant fishing on China's Li River is all but dying out. Fisherman set out with domesticated cormorants, a seabird, on bamboo rafts before sunrise and often in the early evening. These birds prey ...

White streaks of bird waste paint the steel trusses beneath the Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia River. Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.