Cormorants have been the bane of fishermen since time immemorial. They are a very recognizable black and gray seabird with a very long neck and a voracious appetite for fish. These birds can be seen ...

If you haven’t renewed your fishing license yet, yours is expired. You need to get a new one right away so you get out there before all the fish are gone. A decade ago, every angler in Michigan was ...

For what seems like forever, scientists have hotly debated whether or not animals really know how to use tools. Based on my experience with the double-crested cormorant, the answer is unequivocally ...

Often, when I am out birding in wetlands I have someone asking me what the large black “duck” is that is sitting in the trees when it is not swimming in the water. The mistake that is made by folks is ...

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.

While many migrating seabirds have passed through here over the past two months, one bird that can be found sitting atop old pilings and buoys throughout the year is the double-crested cormorant, ...

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources recently added another training session to qualify interested persons for the legal taking of double-crested cormorants from the Santee Cooper lakes. The new ...

My long-time puzzlement as to why a cormorant is called double-crested was finally answered by my computer. Wikipedia showed an oblique-angled picture of this cormorant's head to reveal one crest at a ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups today called for an investigation after agency documents, released last week under court order, showed that killing double-crested cormorants will not benefit ...