A Brandt’s cormorant shines with its trademark blue highlights, wispy white feathers and purple sheen while foraging in Santa Cruz recently. The largest cormorant on the Pacific Coast ...

Cormorant fishing has been a fishing method ... if they aren't rewarded with fish for themselves, will stop diving for more fish. Ayu with beak marks from cormorants are usually worth more.

On Little Cormorant Lake, the Tri-State Diving team says the owner of the spearing house had checked the ice thickness and reported most of the area was between 6-7 inches thick. The recovery team ...

They are also uniquely adapted to high-speed diving, with strong neck muscles ... just peeking out. This ravenous cormorant makes a beeline towards photographer Jon Anderson’s camera, after ...

One other possible loon look-alike is the double-crested cormorant, also a large, dark-colored diving waterbird. Key differences to look for here are the cormorant’s lack of white specks and hoo ...

Orben: It depends. The larger species, for example the Brandt’s cormorant, we’ve documented diving up to 80 meters. But for smaller species, a lot of these birds are really not going that deep.

This streamlined skull, dug from the Gobi desert in Mongolia along with parts of a skeleton that show an equally streamlined body, looks like that of a diving seabird such as a cormorant.