| 单词 | cormorant |
| 例句 | Along the bay, paddleboarders balance, pushing forward with oars while cormorants float around them. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z But I smiled and put my cormorant skirt away in one of the baskets to wear when I got across the sea, sometime when the men were not around. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z By their fight I began to make a cormorant skirt, working every day on it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z On sunny days I would wear them with my cormorant dress and the necklace, and walk along the cliff with Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I went down to the ravine and bathed in the spring and put on my otter cape and my cormorant skirt. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the cormorants ducking and diving. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did I ever kill another cormorant for its beautiful feathers, though they have long, thin necks and make ugly sounds when they talk to each other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z All day Rontu had been barking—at the cormorants, the gulls, the seals—at everything that moved. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I certainly hope Salim is like the cormorants, Ted.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantalaimon held it firmly down with a needle-filled paw and looked up at the darkening sky, where the black wing flaps of the cormorant were circling higher as she cast around for the other. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “In the morning when he crawls out of his tent he sits on a rock and combs until the beard shines like a cormorant’s wing,” Ramo said. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z All of them were from male cormorants whose feathers are thicker than those of the females and much glossier. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dolphins sit there, and gulls, and cormorants, and otter, and whales too, but not clouds.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall Rock was more than a league from the island and was black and shimmering because it was covered with cormorants. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z On their annual travels between the foothills and the shore, paleo-Indians seem to have visited the area periodically to feast on the cormorants and boobies that nested on the rocks by the beach. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I took my cormorant skirt and the abalone box in which I kept my necklace and earrings. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I left the cormorants hanging on the fence and went to the rock on the headland. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the mist they spotted a cormorant, and the men swore those birds never went farther than fifteen miles from land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The old cormorants stood like crucifixes on the rocks, drying their wings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed out two cormorants that dipped and dived into the water, disappearing for ages, then reappearing ten metres or more from where they’d gone down. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I was still holding the cormorant skirt and the girl pointed to it and said something. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra exulted in it, feeling with him as he flew, and urging him mentally to provoke the old tillerman’s cormorant daemon into a race. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They liked my necklace, the cape, and the cormorant skirt that shone in the sun. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to wear my cormorant skirt and my otter cape, which were much more beautiful than the thing he was making. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Lone herons, and cormorants perched on bleached wooden posts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There was much to take—my two birds, the skirt I had made, the stone utensils, my beads and earrings, the cormorant feathers, and all of my baskets and weapons. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I had hidden the canoe and climbed the cliff with the ten cormorant skins slung over my back. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z His 1st Place winner, "Shoal of Life," shot 20 meters below the surface of the Sea of Cortez, shows a cormorant diving into a cosmic swirl of fish — the bird's prey. Conservation-photo award winners at the Burke: beautiful, brutal, complex 2012-07-13T19:37:03Z A parrot made out of a feather duster has a pair of pliers for a beak; cormorants are rustled out of black bin bags. Swallows and Amazons; Get Santa!; The Animals and Children Took to the Streets; A Flea in Her Ear ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:17Z This trip, the first of the season, heads for Jamaica Bay, home to great cormorants as well as many other species. Spare Times for Children for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The first day we had planned to see the Coorong, a national park that is a vast estuary and home to cormorants, spoonbills, black swans and other water birds. In Australia, Driving the Great Ocean Road 2011-04-08T19:24:55Z White-winged guillemots and snaky-necked cormorants voguing on the shore, puffins skimming the water with their clown beaks — it was hard to imagine just a couple of centuries back all this biomass wasn’t here. Kayak, bushwhack and get to know scat on an adventure cruise to Alaska 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Further north is Cormorant Cove, named for cormorant birds that can sometimes be spotted here. Forget the bridge — ditch the car and explore West Seattle on foot 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z This weekend’s trip heads to the Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, where you can expect to see black-crowned night herons, glossy ibises, double-crested cormorants and other species. Spare Times for Children for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z This weekend’s destination: Jamaica Bay, home to great cormorants and glossy ibises, among other species. Spare Times for Children, for June 28-July 4 2013-06-27T21:20:15Z We drank beers on the tranquil malecón and watched cormorants dive low over the water. In Campeche, Pyramids Are Everywhere. Crowds Are Not 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z It also means that the cormorants’ hearing is not so great when they’re flying through the air. Ocean bird’s super hearing helps it catch dinner 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z This Sunday’s destination: the Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, filled with egret and cormorant rookeries. Spare Times for Children for June 14-20 2013-06-13T22:44:20Z This weekend’s trip, the last of the season, heads to Jamaica Bay, home to great cormorants as well as many other species. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Andrew Johnson, the first U.S. president to be impeached, once referred to congressmen as a “common gang of cormorants and bloodsuckers.” ‘THIS IS AN ASSAULT’: History collides with Trump 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z This weekend’s destination: Jamaica Bay, home to double-crested cormorants and many other species. Spare Times for Children for July 19-25 2013-07-18T22:28:52Z And if cormorants and other diving birds use their hearing sensitivity for hunting fish, “they would be vulnerable to intense sounds” and perhaps lose their ability to hunt so well. Ocean bird’s super hearing helps it catch dinner 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z I was realising that I belonged to a wider family of species, the matrix of life, from the spiders to the lichen and the cormorants to the coots. Ecological grief: I mourn the loss of nature – it saved me from addiction 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z This trip, the last of the season, heads for Jamaica Bay, home to great cormorants as well as many other species. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 9-15 2013-08-08T22:04:27Z I’m a bit of a “library cormorant,” to borrow Coleridge’s memorable phrase — always on the swim through books, gulping down this and that, here and there. The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Tim and I pushed off from the shore in a shared kayak and paddled past brown pelicans, a black cormorant and a lanky heron. In Baja, Camping, Cactus and Cocktails 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Waves broke against the sandy beach below, and cormorants and gulls called into the wind. Betting on a shore thing: Four megaship veterans try cruising on a smaller scale 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Carson portrays an abundance of birds, like the cormorant and the hermit thrush, with its “infinite” sound. Footsteps: Rachel Carson’s ‘Rugged Shore’ in Maine 2012-08-22T20:00:28Z Bird-watchers may see migrants like warblers and goldfinches, as well as residents like cardinals, mockingbirds and cormorants. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 14-20 2012-09-13T22:41:58Z Along with the red deer and wild goats, otters and grey seals are regular visitors, and shags and cormorants perch on the rocks. Scotland’s best Highland bothy weekend adventures 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Another 30 miles south, past innumerable cormorants perching on power lines, and you enter another world. 44 Islands and 42 Bridges: A Florida Keys Road Trip 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Because of the decision to restore local plants, “birds such as herons, ibis, kingfishers, anhingas and cormorants and migratory species such as ducks are now starting to call this area home,” she said. Oh, to Stop and Smell the Local Flora 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Hawks and cormorants were whirling in the sun. Personal Journeys: Dodging a Holiday in a Remote Mexican Town 2013-12-27T17:34:54Z We cut the motor at a spit of trees weighted with cormorants and egrets that was aptly named Bird Island. An Eco-Tour of Guatemala’s Rio Dulce Region 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z On Alcatraz’ west side, in the inmate garden, cormorants, snowy egrets and Western gulls now nest. On Alcatraz, the island’s prison gardens are in full flower 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z I found no harlequins, but did see rafts of eiders, plenty of loons, a dozen long-tailed ducks, many cormorants, a few red-breasted mergansers and a single black scoter. On a Maine Island, Steep Bluffs and Solitude 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In the anime, Vicious is dramatically villainous: a deadly member of a crime syndicate, he stalks around killing people with a katana while a creepy black cormorant perches on his shoulder. The Good, the Bad and the Jazzy: What ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Gets Right and Wrong 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z From the beach, I watched gannets pluming into the sea and long lines of cormorants paddling down the tide. The primal thrill of sharks: the emotional case for rewilding the sea 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Sunning myself on a beach after lunch I spotted iguanas, albatrosses and cormorants. In the Footsteps of Charles Darwin 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The trail follows the Blackstone River and Blackstone Canal with views of waterfalls, marshes and wildlife, including great blue herons, cormorants, ospreys, eagles, foxes and muskrats. Take a grand tour of New England — by bike 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z I cut a wide arc around a stand-up paddleboarder and spooked a bobbing cormorant. In the British Virgin Islands I learned to sail — for my father, while there was still time 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The birds — 117 species in all — get their own credits in the film, in order of appearance, starting with a double-crested cormorant and ending with a hooded warbler. Television: ‘Birders: The Central Park Effect’ on HBO 2012-07-13T17:00:06Z I approach a sandbar covered in resting cormorants, as sea otters float in nearby kelp, inky-eyed pups nestled on their mothers’ chests. Clean Energy, Cherished Waters and a Sacred California Rock Caught in the Middle 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Come sundown between May and October, he boards a boat along with an assistant, a steersman, and about 10 cormorants leashed at the neck and body. Climate change threatens Japan's cormorant fishing legacy "I thought the footage of the desert lions paddling in the sea to catch cormorants mid-air in the pitch darkness was amazing," she wrote. Planet Earth III magnificent but horrifying, say reviewers 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z As the surf crashed against a barrier of sand, pelicans, cormorants and ospreys soared over the dark water. The largest dam removal in history stirs hopes of restoring California tribes’ way of life 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The waters along Peru’s coast are famous for the wildlife they support, including dolphins, otters, penguins, and cormorants. Peru Works To Cleanup Oil Spill Caused by Volcano 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The ban could also benefit two other endangered seabirds, the Cape gannet and Cape cormorant, that also rely on sardine and anchovy as their primary food source, Waller says. South Africa to ban fishing around African penguin colonies for 10 years 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The cormorants catch them as they dart away, but the leash keeps the larger fish from going down the birds’ gullets. Climate change threatens Japan's cormorant fishing legacy But he said too far out in the center there were cormorants. California aims to introduce more anglers to native warm-water tolerant sunfish as planet heats up 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Now, cormorants plunge through the surface, and dozens of sea lions dip down from the structures above the water, gliding through the plentiful schools of fish that roam below. An oil rig that environmentalists love? Here’s the real story. 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Above, a man pulls a dead cormorant from the sea. Peru Works To Cleanup Oil Spill Caused by Volcano 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The birds of the country, likewise, are the same as in Portugal, and include cormorants, gulls, turtle doves, crested larks, and many others. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z “For me, cormorants are my partners,” he said. Climate change threatens Japan's cormorant fishing legacy “Out of the corner of my eye, I saw what I assumed was a double-crested cormorant sitting on a log in the canal on my left,” said Mr. Wing, a bird enthusiast. The ‘Devil Bird’ Lands in New York, With More Likely to Come 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z We had a lake behind our house, and Boomer was chasing everything with a feather out of it — ducks, cormorants, anything that moved. Who ya gonna call? Goosebusters 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Light blue sloping streaks, lower left and lower middle, rising above the cormorants’ calls depict the calls of the great-tailed grackle. What does a hoot look like? What about a croak? Or a howl? “How about that triple-birder over there,” Green radios from the wheelhouse, gesturing at a floating log with three cormorants perched on it. How stray logs in Puget Sound turn industrial shorelines green 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z It is home to a number of species not found anywhere else including giant tortoises, flightless cormorants and several species of iguanas, including the pink iguana. Endangered pink iguana hatchlings seen for first time on Galapagos island 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z “The color for the head and neck was much lighter than a typical cormorant, and it didn’t seem right.” The ‘Devil Bird’ Lands in New York, With More Likely to Come 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The round enclosure also holds a swimming cormorant and a large snake whose head and tail can’t be seen, suggesting existence without beginning or end. In the galleries: An artist’s journey through the pandemic 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z There’s also tons of wildlife, and the beaches have tons of seals, otters, cormorants, and more. Effort to Recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón Fails 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z His team organizes volunteers to camp near cormorant gatherings to scare away eagles. Troubled species rebound — only to make things worse for others animals in peril 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Until mid-September for breeding great skuas, common terns, cormorants and fulmars: Bird flu: People to avoid 23 small Scottish islands 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The double-crested cormorants, which had set up a maternity ward behind the pelicans, were also relatively new to the area. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z “They were not alone. Crowds of hungry gulls, terns, cormorants and other seabirds also showed up.” Eavesdropping on the Secret Lives of Dolphins in New York Harbor 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Anne Justice-Allen, the department’s wildlife veterinarian, said calls from the public alerted her agency to the dead cormorants, water-loving birds that often nest in groups. Bird flu arrives in Southwest after millions of birds die 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z But in one area of coastal Maine, the big raptor poses a problem for the only U.S. breeding population of great cormorants. Troubled species rebound — only to make things worse for others animals in peril 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s best known for its birdlife, especially water birds like herons, egrets and cormorants. Drake Bay Getaway | Provided by Drake Bay Getaway Resort 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The state pathologist confirmed that seven double-crested cormorants at the rookery tested positive for avian flu, he said. Search Menu Menu The Washington Post ProfileSolid ProfileSolid The Washington Post Placeholder while article actions load Wp ArrowRight GiftOutline Loading... Loading... 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z A vast flock of Antarctic cormorants crowded the shingle, each one swathed in black and white. Going all in on adventure in Patagonia 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “We have resident cormorants in the area, and we do not normally see mortality events in them.” Bird flu arrives in Southwest after millions of birds die 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z “When they’re disturbed by eagles, the adult cormorants will flush and leave their nests,” said Don Lyons, a conservation scientist at the National Audubon Society’s Seabird Institute. Troubled species rebound — only to make things worse for others animals in peril 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Officials say at least 1,200 oil-covered birds have been found, including cormorants, Peruvian boobies, Humboldt penguins, pelicans and seagulls. 1 month after oil spill, Lima’s beaches empty, cleanup slow 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z One of the rescued birds - a black-and-white Guanay cormorant - looked monochrome black, its white chest and belly covered in oil. On Peru's protected Fishermen's Island, birds are still dying a month after oil spill 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s also a vital food source for many fish, sharks, marine mammals and birds — namely the common seal, California sea lion, Chinook salmon, blue shark, Brandt’s cormorant — and, of course, humans. Ocean heat waves trigger ‘squid bloom’ along Pacific coast, scientists say 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Hundreds of threatened species have benefited worldwide from invasive mammal removal, Kurle said, including six birds common on the Farallon Islands — among them the storm petrel, the tufted puffin and the Brandt’s cormorant. Column: Watch out, Farallon mice. Coastal Commission approves poison air drop 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Then gulls, ravens and crows swoop in to gobble cormorant eggs and chicks. Troubled species rebound — only to make things worse for others animals in peril 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The dead animals included a bottlenose dolphin, three California sea lions and a wide array of birds: cormorants, coots, pigeons, grebes and more. A long road ahead to recovery from Huntington Beach oil spill 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The bunker schools were still feeding and flopping, quietly stalked by cormorants ducking their heads below the surface. Channeling Thoreau: 24 Hours on Pea Island 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z On Sunday, brackish ponds were rife with great blue herons, brown pelicans, double-crested cormorants and western gulls preening along shores stained brown by oil. Oil spill seeps into O.C.'s coastal wetlands, a critical link along migratory bird route 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Its ecosystem is also changing as the lake grows saltier with evaporation, and populations of once-numerous birds such as pelicans and double-crested cormorants have plummeted. A bitter dispute ends as California water agencies pledge cooperation on Colorado River 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Longtime residents miss when eared grebes, cormorants and white and brown pelicans were more abundant. Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California’s largest lake 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Other birds impacted by drones flying too close to the Oregon islands include the common murre, pigeon guillemot, tufted puffin and two types of cormorants. New rules in works to stop drones from harassing birds 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z The prevailing theory is that the men are hunting cormorants — not with arrows, but with terra-cotta pellets, to avoid damaging the birds’ plumage, which was highly valued. Mystery on a Venetian lagoon "I managed to capture this special moment when a cormorant was just about to swallow its prey and the fish seemed to be flying into its beak." Bird Photographer of the Year 2021 finalists revealed 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z As the canals in Venice turned strangely clear, cormorants started diving for fish, and Canada geese escorted their goslings down the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard, passing empty shops displaying Montblanc pens and Fendi handbags. Opinion | The Secret Life of a Coronavirus 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, the sudden abandonment of more than 1,700 Cape cormorant chicks has sparked the largest seabird rescue mission the country has seen in 20 years. Cape cormorants: Caring for South Africa's chicks abandoned in wild 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The seals, along with cormorants, began to eat more pike and perch. A tiny fish takes on its predators—and wins, transforming the Baltic coast 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z One possibility, floated by the late art historian Elfriede Knauer, is that the men are not, in fact, hunting cormorants but instead using them to hunt for fish. Mystery on a Venetian lagoon Although they shared these physical traits with ancient and modern penguins, plotopterids are more closely related to gannets and cormorants than they are to penguins. New Zealand 'monster penguins' had Northern Hemisphere doppelgangers, researchers say 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z By Labor Day weekend, whatever had been afflicting the crows spilled over to the zoo birds: A cormorant swam in perpetual loops, and the flamingos’ necks bent like wilting tulips. How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Now groups of several hundred cormorant chicks are scattered through the Sanccob premises, in pens, enclosures and dozens of large, cardboard boxes lined up along the corridors. Cape cormorants: Caring for South Africa's chicks abandoned in wild 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Her work, she hoped, would not only document local ways of life — the practice of fishing with leashed cormorants, for example — but also spur environmental protections and generate ecotourism. Ann McBride Norton, who led Common Cause and championed campaign-finance laws, dies at 75 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z But if the cormorants are being hunted, what explains the presence on each boat of an unperturbed bird perched on the gunwale? Mystery on a Venetian lagoon In the Baltic Sea, both grey seal and cormorant populations are soaring. Oceans can be restored to former glory within 30 years, say scientists 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The island, located 620 miles east of mainland Ecuador, is home to a number of species, including iguanas, penguins, flightless cormorants and rats. Galapagos volcano eruption spews lava on uninhabited island, photos show 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z "It's an incredibly difficult task to try and raise cormorant chicks," explains Mr Lampen, who is concerned about the risk of respiratory infections, with so many birds living in such close proximity. Cape cormorants: Caring for South Africa's chicks abandoned in wild 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The island is home to a number of species, including iguanas, penguins, flightless cormorants and rats. Volcano spews lava on Galapagos island 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z But it was that cormorant that led the local page the next day. Pictures of the Year 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z To preserve salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest and perch and other fish in the Midwest, federal and state agencies kill thousands of large seabirds called double-crested cormorants. Owl killings spur moral questions about human intervention 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z To preserve salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest and perch and other fish in the Midwest, agencies kill thousands of large seabirds called double-crested cormorants. Owl killings spur moral questions about human intervention 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z "We really have to keep an eye on them in the ICU," says Emily Howard, 24, a former intern drafted back in to help deal with the cormorant crisis. Cape cormorants: Caring for South Africa's chicks abandoned in wild 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z On one side is a pond with lotus and water lilies; in the center, a floating bridge where double-crested cormorants and egrets gather as fat koi swim below. Serenity, now: Where to find a quiet spot amid the bustle of L.A. 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z I pointed the car downhill to Magnuson Park and found a single cormorant unfolding its wings in the early morning sun. Pictures of the Year 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The area northwest of Billings is the nesting place for several species of waterfowl, including Canada geese, pelicans and cormorants. Officials look for disease as hailstorm-killed birds decay 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Big Lake Wildlife Management Area's lake and surrounding wetlands serve as the nesting areas for dozens of species of ducks, Canada geese, double-crested cormorants, shorebirds, gulls, pelicans and other waterfowl, the agency said. SEE IT: Thousands of birds killed during hailstorm at Montana wildlife preserve 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z “Most people in D.C. have to listen to traffic. We listen to ducks, osprey, seagulls, night herons and cormorants,” Poston said. At Gangplank Marina, a community ‘rises and falls with the tides’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Once I watched the cormorant that lives in Camden Lock trying to swallow a live eel. Dude, I take no pleasure in having been right about Boris Johnson | Stewart Lee 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z The agency manages the island located at the mouth of the Columbia River, as well as the Caspian tern and double-crested cormorant colonies that nest there seasonally. On the Astoria Bridge, a cormorant kingdom grows 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z “None of them were seagulls, pelicans, cormorants, or any kind of marine bird,” Drymon said. Baby tiger sharks eat songbirds like sparrows, doves, study finds 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Regulars here include osprey, long-necked stilts, herons, cormorants, hawks and varieties of ducks and geese. L.A. Walks: The grittiest L.A. River path you’ve never heard of 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z He told the Guardian he was taking a video of the hole when the bird, which he said was actually a cormorant, suddenly appeared in the frame, floating near the opening. Bird swallowed by giant 'glory hole' in video, sparking fears for its fate 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Environmentalists say it is difficult to predict the impact of the canal construction on various species living in the area, including cormorants and Baltic seals. Poland defies green activists, EU with Baltic canal project 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z The agency began hazing and shooting double-crested cormorants and destroying eggs and nests on the island in 2015 to control the colony’s numbers. On the Astoria Bridge, a cormorant kingdom grows 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z In recent years we’ve tried everything from killing thousands of fry-eating cormorants to shooting sea lions, in desperate attempts to salvage the whales’ food supply. In the great debate to save the orcas, the apex predator is missing 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Flightless cormorants starve at their nests because they cannot travel to find food elsewhere when fish populations drop near the islands. As Seas Warm, Galápagos Islands Face a Giant Evolutionary Test 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Flooding has affected the nesting of water birds like common loons, American white pelicans, and double-crested cormorants. Your Children’s Yellowstone Will Be Radically Different 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Eagles sometimes prey on the cormorants’ young, which presents a difficult balancing act for conservationists who want to see both species protected, he said. Record growth for bald eagles in northern New England 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z More work is planned in 2021 on the under truss, where many of the cormorants now appear to be nesting. On the Astoria Bridge, a cormorant kingdom grows 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z But in this corner of northwest Hong Kong, tens of thousands of cormorants, herons, egrets, sandpipers and other birds, including endangered species like the black-faced spoonbill, gather each winter to feed on the mud flats. A Rural Patch of Hong Kong Where Rare Birds Sing and Developers Circle 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Every now and then we’d spot a cormorant drying its feathers, wings outstretched as if it were doing tai chi. Perspective | River run: The Anacostia is healthier than it once was, not as good as it can be 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Thom Airs, of Angling Times, said a carp in a lake "was an easy meal for an agile otter" but increasingly cormorants were settling inland to feed. Fishing lake thefts a 'major problem' 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z I rode north along the lagoon shore, past men fly-fishing off concrete pontoons and cormorants sunning their wings on the rocks. An Unmissable Summer Holiday in the Baltics 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z He saw dozens and dozens of cormorants and nests full of eggs. On the Astoria Bridge, a cormorant kingdom grows 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Go ahead: Look at one up close, and convince the person next to you it is not some odd result of crossbreeding a cormorant with a rodeo clown. Puffins face challenges but return to Cannon Beach every spring 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Leaning over the railing, our gaze tracks wood ducks, pied-billed grebes and double-crested cormorants as they dive and pop back up where we do not expect. How much of a burden can we be to Union Bay before the strain is too much? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The great herons, the cormorants, the lit candles of ibis. “Under the Wave” 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z With laughing gulls and cormorants swimming nearby, Mr. Wool went to work casting and retrieving his lures through the murky water. A Growing Brooklyn Fishing Scene, Artisanal Lures Included 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z There’s a row of birds perched on an errant log — cormorant, cormorant, seagull, heron. Birdwatching with my mother: Caregiving, dementia and us 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Sporting groups say cormorants reduce populations of prized sport fish such as smallmouth bass and yellow perch. Lawmakers consider resuming lethal control of cormorants 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Rigolet’s fishermen say new species are arriving in the bay, from cormorants to sharks to sea turtles, chasing warming waters and the food that comes with it. 'Sea, ice, snow, it’s all changing': Inuit culture struggles with warming world 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The agency will not shoot cormorants this year, but will haze the birds and destroy nests. Hungry birds: Food a concern for brown pelicans 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Watch pelicans and cormorants dive for fish, read books, and revel in absolute inaccessibility. The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z It is home to hundreds of bird species including pelicans and cormorants, but rising salinity and pollution have depleted populations of fish and the birds that eat them. Ballot measure aims to preserve Salton Sea, help air quality 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The island is a nesting place for the red-faced cormorant. Federal funding bill would authorize Kodiak land swap 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Cape cormorants and other seabirds in South Africa are off-limits to scientists, as part of an effort to limit avian flu.Credit: Avian flu freezes coastal bird research in South Africa 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The tent occupied one corner of a cavernous “clean room” in a remote building on the scrubby outskirts of the space center here, amid palms and canals and flocks of cormorants. Meet TESS, Seeker of Alien Worlds 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The cormorants eat the fish — some of which are listed under the Endangered Species Act — as they swim the Columbia. Corps wants to take 500 cormorant eggs to support salmon 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “Welcome back,” Dana blurts out, as the cormorant takes off from a nearby dock. Sewage issues, fish kill threat linger after Hurricane Irma 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Divers watched in awe as a particularly persistent bird called a cormorant dove below the waves and ripped off suckerfish that were stuck to a whale shark. Watch a Bold Little Bird Dive-Bomb the World’s Largest Fish 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The team, led by Harvard University molecular ecologist Alison Cloutier, discovered that the genetics underlying the moas’ winglessness are different than those for other birds that don’t fly, such as the Galápagos cormorant. Fossil poop reveals critical role of giant birds in New Zealand’s ecosystem 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The number of cormorants roosting upstream on the Astoria Bridge swelled. An eagle finds his wings again at Astoria wildlife center 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Two Juneau bird watchers were excited to see cormorants, a species common in the Lower 48 but less abundant in Alaska. Alaska bird watchers track species on state’s watch list 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Scientists believe penguins descended from cormorants, a group of aquatic birds that persist today, and later evolved and spread. Human-Size Penguin Fossils Discovered 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z But the cormorant video raises an interesting question: Would getting rid of a hanger-on such as a suckerfish be beneficial to the whale shark? Watch a Bold Little Bird Dive-Bomb the World’s Largest Fish 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Then they let the penguins and cormorants go hunting, collecting data on how they moved over the course of each dive. Same Oceans, Similar Prey, Two Very Different Necks 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z In Washington state’s Grays and Willapa bays, observers reported thousands of cormorants while the Columbia River estuary was nearly empty. An eagle finds his wings again at Astoria wildlife center 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Fish-eating birds like the cormorant all but disappeared from the area. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z There are more types of birds than I can list, but they include eagles, ospreys, several types of herons, egrets, mergansers, cormorants, hawks and owls, including screech owls. Opinion | Discarded in the Potomac: Bottles and cans, golf balls and boats 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Right now, it’s impossible to say how widespread the new cormorant feeding behavior may be—it could just be the fancy of one bird in Mexico. Watch a Bold Little Bird Dive-Bomb the World’s Largest Fish 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Imperial cormorants, lanky, long-necked creatures that live on the southern coasts of Argentina and Chile, spend much of their time immersed in the frigid waters of the ocean. Same Oceans, Similar Prey, Two Very Different Necks 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z These activities were temporarily suspended after the cormorants abandoned their nests. An eagle finds his wings again at Astoria wildlife center 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Migratory birds like eagles, cormorants and pelicans still visit the marshes on their seasonal journeys. Iraq’s vast marshes, reborn after Saddam, are in peril again 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z However, the 3.7-acre island is a sanctuary for nesting double-crested cormorants, herons, great egrets, gulls and white pelicans and is off limits to visitors. Door County island restoration makes for difficult logistics 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z His eagle eyes spot plump brown sea lions feeding their babies, sea otters slithering across the rocks in search of penguin eggs and sleek black cormorants diving from the grey rocky cliffs. How Chilean fishermen adapted to protect marine life 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Their stout, well-insulated bodies seem like a much better choice for hunting in this unforgiving environment, while the slender, exposed necks of cormorants are like gloveless hands in January. Same Oceans, Similar Prey, Two Very Different Necks 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Police said a shotgun was fired several times from a boat, killing several birds, including a federally protected gull and a double-crested cormorant. Investigation into shootings of protected birds near Baltimore has stalled 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Authorities said five birds, including a federally protected gull and a double-crested cormorant, were killed in the July 21 incident and more than 300 rounds of ammunition for several weapons were found in the boat. Maryland transportation officer investigated in fatal shooting of birds in Baltimore 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The two researchers speculate, therefore, that in the absence of cormorants or similar predators, bream and roach would merge back into the single species that their ancestors presumably once were. How species originate 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z For periods, he subsisted on the meat of penguins and cormorants, another aquatic bird. William J.L. Sladen, scientific adventurer featured in ‘Fly Away Home,’ dies at 96 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The researchers found that a cormorant uses half as much energy by just moving her head and not her whole body. Same Oceans, Similar Prey, Two Very Different Necks 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Yet that hasn’t stopped one odd bird from calling Fernandina home: the world’s only flightless cormorant. How the clumsy Galapagos cormorant lost its flight 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Above are open horizons as well as the occasional falcon, eagle and cormorant. Walking Over the Hudson: Lofty Valley Views Where Trains Once Rumbled 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Three years later, they started scanning cormorant colonies near the lake, searching for transponders. How species originate 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Army of Corps of Engineers say they will continue to kill cormorant sea birds known to heavily reduce the Columbia River’s salmon population for a third year. Washington sea birds killing for salmon stability continues 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z A long neck does mean a certain amount of heat is lost, and the cormorant’s gawky profile is not as streamlined as a lightning-swift penguin’s form. Same Oceans, Similar Prey, Two Very Different Necks 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z They discovered about a dozen mutated genes in the Galapagos cormorants known to trigger rare skeletal disorders in humans called ciliopathies, often characterized by misshapen skulls, short limbs, and small ribcages. How the clumsy Galapagos cormorant lost its flight 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Rising salinity levels at the Salton Sea have been linked to massive die-offs of perch-like fish called tilapia, which huge populations of migrating birds birds including cormorants and pelicans depend on. State unveils a 10-year plan to restore habitat and control toxic dust storms along the Salton Sea's receding shoreline 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Of the 249 birds that damaged an aircraft from 2004 to April of last year, 54 were seagulls, 12 were ospreys, 11 were double-crested cormorants and 30 were geese, according to Federal Aviation Administration data. Nearly 70,000 birds killed in New York in attempt to clear safer path for planes 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z The Corps says it will continue hunting cormorants next year. Washington sea birds killing for salmon stability continues 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Of the 249 birds that damaged an aircraft from 2004 to April of last year, 54 were seagulls, 12 were osprey, 11 were double-crested cormorants and 30 were geese, according to Federal Aviation Administration data. ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ legacy: 70,000 slain birds 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z The big question for modern scientists is how animals like the flightless cormorant got to be this way in the first place. How the clumsy Galapagos cormorant lost its flight 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The duck-size creature looked like a cross between a sea gull and a cormorant, but with a beak full of teeth. Newly Discovered Prehistoric Bird Lived Near a Balmy North Pole 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z I became adept at watching the body language, movements and direction of the gulls, kingfishers, seals, cormorants, bald eagles, osprey and herons that accompanied me on the river. He Fished Every Morning of Summer. And Was Home by 7 A.M. 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z As we sailed up the Anacostia and under the 11th Street Bridge, we passed ducks and cormorants. Roiling on the river: This boat prowls the waters, picking up floating logs 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Big fish, seals, cormorants, gulls, and terns congregate in the tides, plucking out herring and mackerel as they move. The Dynamism of Janet McTeer 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z No single mutation alone caused the cormorants to lose their ability to fly. How the clumsy Galapagos cormorant lost its flight 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Seagulls cried overhead and elegant black cormorants dashed along the shoreline. Wallace Island offers quiet kayak camping getaway 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z "It is time for the government to stop this slaughter and recognize that its cormorant killing program rests on a foundation of broken laws," said Bob Sallinger, conservation director of Portland's Audubon Society. US judge: Gov't can keep killing salmon-eating birds 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The fetid mess left behind, along with the waste from cormorants and other seabirds, sometimes proved overwhelming in a community where tourists pay to eat outside. Stinky Sea Lions Inspire Wacky Deterrents—Like Fake Orcas A fisherman and cormorants are seen on a bamboo raft on the Lijiang River, or Li River, in southwestern China. South China Sea: Chinese Shadow U.S. Aircraft Carrier on Patrol 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Do the Galapagos cormorants gain anything by their ungainliness? How the clumsy Galapagos cormorant lost its flight 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The park is home to such revered and threatened species as the giant Galápagos tortoise, the flightless cormorant and the blue-footed booby. Galápagos Islands Gain a New Guardian as Ecuador Moves to Protect the Park 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The birds on East Sand Island at the mouth of the Columbia river between Oregon and Washington states constitute North America's biggest double-crested cormorant nesting colony. US judge: Gov't can keep killing salmon-eating birds 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Another report will focus on the double-crested cormorant, a bird that some anglers say eats too many fish. State natural resources panel to get deer management update 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z A fisherman and cormorants are seen on a bamboo raft on the Lijiang River, or Li River, in southwestern China. South China Sea: Chinese Shadow U.S. Aircraft Carrier on Patrol 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z It's home to rare Bengal tigers, rhinos and gharial crocodiles, and teems with birds from kingfishers to cormorants. A slow recovery for Nepal's tourist industry - BBC News 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z It is the flightless cormorant, not a flightless albatross. Galápagos Islands Gain a New Guardian as Ecuador Moves to Protect the Park 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The revision will likely address some concerns about cormorants with other ways to reduce salmon deaths. US judge: Gov't can keep killing salmon-eating birds 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z According to the ruling, the agency violated the National Environmental Policy Act by permitting up to 160,000 double-crested cormorants to be killed each year in 24 states east of the Mississippi River. A federal judge says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acted improperly by allowing tens of thousands of migratory aquatic birds to be shot each year to protect fish populations 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z But when he asked around for flocks of, say, cormorants or storm petrels, a park warden told him he was out of luck. Parrots Are a Lot More Than ‘Pretty Bird’ 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Stretches of sandy beach lie on the other side of the seawall, and cormorants sit on the rocks of the stone breakwaters watching over the ferries running from New London to Orient Point. Costs mount as officials decide future of park 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z They also say the government failed to use non-lethal methods of cormorant control on East Sand Island in the Columbia River, and say killing the birds will do little to save salmon. U.S. culls over 1,200 Oregon cormorants, sparks outcry 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z For example, the study found that cormorant and shag populations have fallen by 73%. After 60 million years of extreme living, seabirds are crashing 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z "We believe this goes beyond simply killing cormorants. This is about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and their scientific integrity," Sallinger said. Conservationists: U.S. report invalidates plan to kill cormorants 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Aptly named, Gull Island attracts several species of birds that nest in its crags, including black-legged kittiwakes, glaucous gulls, cormorants and horned puffins. New Kachemak Bay tour offers science, sightseeing 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Puffins and cormorants quickly returned, and the island was renamed Hawadax. On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Lately, Mullet Island was a nesting ground for double-crested cormorants, but as of now it is not an island at all, just a steep hill with a water view and no birds. California Runs Dry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z They also argue the government failed to use non-lethal methods of cormorant control on East Sand Island in the Columbia River, and said killing the birds will do little to save the salmon. Lawsuit seeks to stop government from killing Oregon birds 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Fish and Wildlife Service approved a plan to cull 11,000 double-crested cormorants despite knowing it would not save threatened fish populations. Conservationists: U.S. report invalidates plan to kill cormorants 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The Corps is also proposing to spray some cormorant eggs with vegetable oil, so the chicks don’t develop. Federal proposal: shoot salmon-eating seabirds, destroy eggs 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z They also said it may be worth tighter controls on the lake’s northern pike, smallmouth bass and cormorant populations to benefit walleyes. Walleyes, deer, wolves and moose among topics of DNR event 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z A flock of cormorants, as angular as Escher drawings, spun through the sky. California Runs Dry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The species included penguins, falcons, eagles, woodpeckers, owls, vultures, pelicans, cranes, crows, hornbills, cormorants, hummingbirds, pigeons, ducks, chickens, turkeys, ostriches, finches, loons, flamingos, swifts, and even the White-throated Tinamou. Feathered friends: researchers unveil bird 'family tree' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The lawsuit argues that the federal government failed to use non-lethal methods of cormorant control, and that it is ignoring what the groups say is the real threat to salmon and steelhead numbers: hydroelectric dams. Conservationists: U.S. report invalidates plan to kill cormorants 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The vast waters may also reduce competition in the form of pelican and cormorant populations. Silt removal promotes duck populations, fishing 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z An officer found a bird that was unable to fly and took the double-crested cormorant to a wildlife rehabilitator for an evaluation and care. D.C. Animal Watch The black-crowned night heron and great cormorant may be upgraded to “endangered.” Maine endangered animals bill on tap for December 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z It stopped for distant sandhill cranes, a juvenile eagle perched on a giant nest, cormorants silhouetted atop stumps in Nelson Pool. Zimmerman volunteers gather seeds, restore habitat 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The DNR says about 30 cormorants and several pelicans were recently found dead in nesting colonies on the islands. DNR closes Pigeon Lake islands 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Accelerometers taped to wild cormorants revealed that birds carrying a load of fish required 14% more acceleration to stay aloft than did unladen birds, for example. Wildlife energy: Survival of the fittest 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The cormorants were not the first fish-eating birds on East Sand Island to get salmon defenders’ attention. Taking Up Arms Where Birds Feast on Buffet of Salmon 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The herons range from Saco Bay to Muscongus Bay and the cormorants from outer Penobscot Bay to Jericho Bay, he said. Maine might add 2 birds to its endangered list 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z National Park Service officials are monitoring a cormorant population that roosts on a shipwreck near Lake Michigan’s South Manitou Island, hoping to prevent them from damaging the island’s cedar trees. Feds extend cormorant control policy at lakeshore 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z And once, at a distance of 50 feet, a bald eagle scavenging the carcass of a cormorant. Op-Ed Contributor: An Evolutionary Family Drama 2014-04-20T23:42:52Z Anne Stephens: "Some wacky seabirds at Morecambe. I was using black and white as I was taking pictures of an art deco hotel nearby, when I spotted these sculptural cormorants on the sea front." Your pictures: Statues 2013-12-12T11:14:47Z Meanwhile, cormorant numbers go up, even though scientists experimentally reduced the available nesting area they could use to four acres from 16. Taking Up Arms Where Birds Feast on Buffet of Salmon 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The crew passed the decaying timber docks and lush green overgrowth on North Brother Island, where herons and cormorants have replaced the typhoid victims who were once quarantined there. Summer Shorelines: In Water They Wouldn’t Dare Drink, Paddlers Find a Home 2013-08-29T15:55:52Z Long-eared owls Asio otus and Ospreys Pandion haliaetus have also nested within active rookeries on occasion, and rookeries are sometimes mixed with active nests belonging to herons, cormorants and ibises. In pursuit of the Rook 2013-05-12T17:45:05.410Z However, 100 cormorants were observed recently at the pond. Columbia River region anglers battling through the weather and catching some fish 2012-12-04T19:16:04Z But since the rocks were closed off, partly because of safety concerns, sea gulls and cormorants have taken over, their droppings have piled up and the smell has grown more acrid by the day. California Cove Blessed With Nature’s Beauty Reels From Its Stench 2012-11-24T21:33:03Z In the Great Lakes, the authorities have shot dead thousands of double-crested cormorants over the last several years. Taking Up Arms Where Birds Feast on Buffet of Salmon 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z But it took weeks of further clues, including the deaths of two flamingos and a cormorant at the Bronx Zoo, for officials to find the culprit. The West Nile virus: Uninvited 2012-08-30T15:01:38Z A cormorant on the river Lea in east London where the birds are said to be causing a dearth of fish. Anglers vs 'the Black Death': cormorants have the edge in battle of the riverbanks 2012-08-11T14:53:56Z Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the National Research Council of Argentina attached a camera to the back of a cormorant to track its dietary regimen. Watch: This Giant Bird Dives 150 Feet Underwater for Food 2012-08-01T22:05:30Z They also hope the research will enable them to understand environmental conditions that affect cormorants. Cormorant's high-speed dive filmed 2012-08-01T11:43:12Z “To continue to allow cormorants to grow unchecked is a serious barrier to salmon recovery,” he said. Taking Up Arms Where Birds Feast on Buffet of Salmon 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z We walked along the magnificent coastal path, past cormorants and seal rocks and people in crash helmets abseiling down the sheer cliff faces, for no apparent reason. Simon Hoggart's week: Obama rapped for the euro crisis 2012-05-18T20:00:01Z "If there are cormorants at a site, most naturalists would say that means there are fish there," Madge said. Anglers vs 'the Black Death': cormorants have the edge in battle of the riverbanks 2012-08-11T14:53:56Z After returning to the surface, cormorants are often seen drying their wings in the sun. Watch: This Giant Bird Dives 150 Feet Underwater for Food 2012-08-01T22:05:30Z A cormorant found Sunday on a beach south of Lima. Peru Has No Answers on Dead Dolphins and Seabirds 2012-05-08T02:20:07Z By 2011, scientists at Oregon State University found, the cormorants each year ate about 20 million juvenile salmon as they headed to sea. Taking Up Arms Where Birds Feast on Buffet of Salmon 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z But in the vast majority of Earth's peoples this ancestral craving is forced by Civilisation to gratify itself imaginatively, and it is this cormorant in the human mind that the press feeds conscientiously and often. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z The population of cormorants is far lower than wood pigeons, which are almost in their millions. Anglers vs 'the Black Death': cormorants have the edge in battle of the riverbanks 2012-08-11T14:53:56Z We're told a cormorant sits, and doth not tire, For a whole month, perched upon Newark spire! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z The shores reverberated with the cries of the little auks, cormorants, divers, and gulls. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z “We’re not persuaded they have fully explored ways of improving habitats elsewhere or other means of dispersing” the cormorants, he said. Taking Up Arms Where Birds Feast on Buffet of Salmon 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Sea gulls and cormorants wheeled in the air above, uttering dissonant cries. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z "Some other lakes will also get their plants later in May and June to avoid cormorant bird predation." Trout plantings make lakes immediately appealing for anglers | Outdoors notebook 2012-03-24T02:51:04Z Yet there are cormorants who, year after year, Perch in the Church. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z Of these the gulls, cormorants, and penguins will first attract the attention of the traveller. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z But Stan Senner of the National Audubon Society argues that to kill off some of the cormorant colony here, which makes up one-quarter of the birds’ western population, “is an extreme measure, totally inappropriate.” Taking Up Arms Where Birds Feast on Buffet of Salmon 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I can't think what to make of myself—I'm becoming a regular cormorant! Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z These fellows, that I'm in pursuit of, have run from their ships; if our navy's unmann'd, what becomes of you and your house, you dunghill cormorant? Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen 2012-03-08T03:00:09.310Z Our voyagers pitied, of course, the bereaved eider mothers, despised the cormorant gulls, but gladly increased their stock of needed provisions with both. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The Earl of Liverpool, in addition to his paternal arms, bears ‘on a chief wavy argent, a cormorant sable, holding in his beak a branch of laver or sea-weed vert.’ The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z But efforts to encourage the birds to move have been, at best, inconclusive; the cormorants often return to East Sand Island. Taking Up Arms Where Birds Feast on Buffet of Salmon 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z But many birdwatchers and nature lovers enjoy seeing cormorants sunning themselves in treetops near lakes and rivers after diving for fish. VIDEO: Petition calls for cormorant cull 2012-02-22T09:45:46Z The cormorants dwelt with their families in fine stone houses which they had constructed with great ingenuity. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z The ponds in the low grounds on each side of the river are resorted to by vast quantities of fowls, such as swans, geese, brants, cranes, storks, white gulls, cormorants, and plover. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z But suddenly, straight and swift as a diving cormorant, he shot down into the torrent and disappeared beneath the surface. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z The raven, screech-owl, heron, cormorant, and so on to geese, gulls, mallards, teal, ducks, snipes, and many others. Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 2011-12-28T03:00:44.040Z I said, pointing to the face of the lower cliff, about which thousands of white, grey, and black gulls and cormorants were darting in and out of the crevices, making a continuous din. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z The gulls are not such good architects as the cormorants, and for the most part live in the natural crevices of the rocks, or in holes which they steal from the rabbits. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z He swims like a fish, and dives like a cormorant, and can manage a boat first-rate.” Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z In fact, after the fashion of a cormorant or a kingfisher, he was perched motionless on a big dead stub of a branch. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z “All you need do is to follow the cormorant when he heads for the open sea, then you will be on the right course,” said the man. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z Half a dozen men were already grouped upon the boulders, like cormorants. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z Here multitudes of man-of-war birds, gannets, boobies, cormorants, and petrels have their undisturbed haunts. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z Flocks of sea-gulls, penguins, and cormorants have chosen this island for their abode. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z The single egg laid in each nest has a white and chalky shell very like that of a cormorant’s. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z “No, I only met three cormorants, who were sitting on a piece of drift-wood and croaking,” was Isaac’s reply. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z These cormorants bear a metal ring, The channel of their greed to stay, So trained—they are not taught to sing— They dive at will and catch and bring, But cannot gorge the prey. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z We saw many rabbits dodging among the rocks, and gulls and cormorants in quantities. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z The Spanish cormorants pursued me in such a manner that they set me molting in a terrible way. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z One especially remembered one, after green cormorants' nests, at the entrance to that most noble cave the Gap of Doonmore, was of great difficulty. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z The boys had been washed and fed—an astonishing supper, even for those cormorants!—and now had elected to seek rest and refreshment at the maternal knee. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z Guillemots and puffins, cormorants and northern divers, everywhere darted, swam, or slept upon the listless ocean, whose deep breathing no more than lifted a league-long calm here and there, to lapse breathlike as it rose. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The single egg it contains has a white shell of the same chalky character as a cormorant’s. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z It gets a good plant of rainbow trout in the spring, and the ones that don't get caught early on or by cormorants usually grow to 15 inches or more. It's Reel Time Trivia so put on your thinking fishing cap 2011-08-15T17:16:07Z The rock is named from its usual frequenters, the kite, hawk, and cormorant showing up in large numbers on the face. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z The boater who startled the cormorants was a newspaperman looking to write about the islands of the East River. City Room: On New York's Low Seas: Day 5 2011-08-12T21:10:39Z SEA gulls and cormorants circled overhead in the early morning fog as the Block Island ferry blew its horn in the distance. A Boat-to-Table Initiative Brings Fish to Chefs 2011-08-09T22:49:23Z An occasional cormorant is caught sight of, with its distended pouch bearing witness to its proverbial voracity. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z And Cynulcus said,—The cormorant is carried out from his battle of the throat! The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z These ecclesiastical cormorants took a hungry survey of every place containing property on which they could lay hands. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Going down-river, there just south of Roosevelt Island, is an outcropping where cormorants roost and gaze at a slightly bigger rocky island to the south, just across from the United Nations building. City Room: On New York's Low Seas: Day 5 2011-08-12T21:10:39Z A flock of cormorants flew, screaming, round the lofty tower, which, on the land-side, was bright in the moonshine, while it cast its long dark shadow over the rampart, towards the Sound. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Confound the old cormorant; his house will cause all of them poor white settlers no end of trouble. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z Mr. Barra and his 8 Bridges crew will pass cormorants, ospreys and bald eagles that perch in trees along the water. Seven Days and 120 Miles to Go 2011-07-03T03:00:52Z Yonder, where the gulls are screaming and diving, with here and there a solan goose and a cormorant in the midst of the flock, must be a patch of the smaller fry. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z How importunate and inexorable were those cormorants of every petty western community, called by courtesy, "Banks," which had moused into every nook and corner for paper which it was hoped would prove a profitable investment. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z In some birds they attain a great length, and may project beyond the contour feathers, sometimes forming conspicuous white patches, as for example in the necks of cormorants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The result was that Peggoty used immediately to walk off and leave his cormorant kinsman to the undivided booty. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Little gentle waves were rippling in over the rocks, cormorants were diving for fish, and the inevitable seagulls were wheeling and screaming, or settling down in the pools to hunt for tit-bits. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z "Away, cormorant," said Don Quixote; "rouse and let us go see it, and learn how it fares with the disdained Basil." The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z They were going to shoot cormorants along Huntcliff Nab, where the birds lodge in the clefts and afford good practice for a rifle. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The cormorants are, so far as is known, the only birds which have a nestling plumage composed entirely of pre-plumulae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z And the palace was thatched with cormorant’s feathers. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z At times they resembled the scream of the cormorant as he wheels over a rock at sea. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z In the course of the day we saw a ground hog, and two cormorants. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z It has its enemies in the predatory aquatic birds—herons, cranes, and cormorants—while man is also among them. Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z I met more than one of these cormorants after we left Slawkowo, but none whose conduct so much mystified me as that of Captain Payard of the dragoons. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z The artifacts are associated with the remains of shellfish, seals, geese, cormorants and fish. California Islands Give Up Evidence of Early Seafaring 2011-03-04T16:35:00Z That mention of the cormorant was lucky; this man's eyes had just the sea-bird's wild stare. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z It is in the shape of a cormorant on a tree that he sits watching his victims. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z “Chilian,” which is a village of Chile, is a Tagálog composition, in which, adding an “an,” we have a word which signifies “place,” and we get “cachilian” which signifies “place where there are cormorants.” The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z Previously in Extinction Countdown: Eagle versus cormorant: What to do when one rare species starts eating another? Should barred owls be shot to save endangered spotted owls? 2011-02-16T18:15:00.230Z Penguins, Cape pigeons, albatross, and some kinds of sea gull, surround the boat, while flocks of gannets and cormorants fly around the fishermen. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z "Here, little cormorant," says Guy, as fondly as he dares, handing her a gigantic bonbonnière in which chocolates and French sweetmeats fight for mastery: "have I got you what you wanted?" Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Maseden imagined that this creature of the wild was, in all probability, as hardy as a cormorant, and equally voracious. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z The name “Chile” is not strange to this language where the cormorant is called “cachile.” The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z Yet each approves the things he loves, From caviare to pork; Some guzzle cheese or new-grown peas, Like a cormorant or stork; The poor man's wife employs a knife, The rich man's mate a fork. Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z For here we should find not only such birds as the goose, pelican, and ibis, but the vulture and cormorant as well. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The unwelcome intruders departed leaving us with an occasional old boot-leg, or leather strap, or dried rubber, from which the cormorants had sucked the "juice." Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z As a matter of course, she attracted the attention of the book-makers—those cormorants ever on the lookout for a “speculation.” Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Gallinaceous birds, stork- and crane-like waders, rails, birds of prey, cormorants, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z He leered from the mound like a villain and taunted hitters with sliders that dived like hungry cormorants. Felix Hernandez's brilliance is a reminder of Steve Carlton's great 1972 season 2010-09-25T06:44:00Z That means that various species of penguin, parrot, cormorant, owl, hummingbird, kingfisher, woodpecker and game birds such as partridge and pheasant, may all use certain feathers for touch. 2010-02-05T17:49:00Z Among the birds, there are flightless cormorants, which have stumpy little wings; and, famously, there are several unique species of finch. 2010-02-02T23:33:00Z It was a waterway; the hotel’s porch had disappeared, and dozens of cormorants were approaching in formation across the water. 2010-01-25T05:00:00Z The four-toed aquatic birds either have all the toes webbed, as the pelican, gannet, cormorant, &c., or have the hind toe loose. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History His task was to keep Miss Leslie supplied with fresh eggs and each day to kill as 148 many of the boobies and cormorants as he could skin and split for drying. Into the Primitive The Tibetans stood on the roofs of their houses like a row of cormorants, and watched the doolie pass underneath. The Unveiling of Lhasa "Do you think I'm a cormorant, as well as an abandoned person?" she demanded. Patricia Brent, Spinster Fishing birds, kingfishers, gulls, pelicans, and cormorants, especially the trained cormorants of China, are of interest. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women A cormorant is perched on the monument, 311 defiling it, as if to remind some moralizer like Hamlet, of "the base uses" to which things sacred may be turned. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The mode of fishing is varied; often men and boys dive for them, but the more entertaining method is by the cormorant. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 We all," he said, "were sacrificed to keep this cormorant in being, and to enable him to produce the miserable bits of printed paper which are all that he has to show for himself. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Here were divers and waders, kingfishers and snaky-necked birds of the cormorant family, but no duck. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel They stood like peering cormorants at the cliff's edge. The Three Mulla-mulgars Federal legislation has been much in the interest of stock-jobbers, speculators, monopolists, so that "corners" have been fostered, and labor has paid heavy and depressing tribute to fatten greedy cormorants. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. The wall-like, reddish-brown cliff rose almost sheer above, with gulls and puffins and guillemots and cormorants perched on its rugged crags, or rising to circle screaming in the air. The Head Girl at the Gables To the untravelled Englishman of Henry VIII’s reign, “cormorants” must have meant some like devouring griffins, and “locusts” as a ruthless irremediable and fearful plague without end. A Supplication for the Beggars He was better acquainted with the buoys in the channels than the cormorants who make them their resting-places. Toilers of the Sea Along the crests of the waves he flew, like the cormorant that chases fishes through the sea deeps, with his plumage wet in the sea brine. Tales of Troy and Greece "You insatiable cormorant!" said Mistress Vicza angrily, "what will you want next?" and, drawing the capacious night-cap over his head, she bade him go to sleep, and left the room. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 The old cormorant looks nearly as big as a goose, but is really much smaller; its flesh is quite uneatable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Eagles watched them with icy gray eyes from its summit, and the slow cormorant, and the sad sea-gulls. Jan Vedder's Wife It was an immense flight of gulls, seamews, and cormorants; a vast multitude of affrighted sea birds. Toilers of the Sea The cormorants are famous swimmers, and use their feet alone. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North When Sally Stone nursed him, she was forced to feed the little cormorant with a tablespoon. Olla Podrida These cormorants! these suckers of blood! these harpies and vultures! Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories There are numerous species in these sheltered channels, inlets and sounds of geese, ducks, swans, cormorants, ibises, bitterns, red-beaks, curlew, snipe, plover and moorhens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" The seamews and cormorants flew about him restlessly, as if anxious to warn him of his danger. Toilers of the Sea You can make fine omelet from the eggs of eiders, gulls, puffins and cormorants. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North They're rounding the fish up Close under my cliffs where the cormorants nest; The lugger lamps glitter In hundreds and litter The sea-floor like spangles. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 They were also a good deal whitened with the mute of the cormorant and other sea-fowls, which had roosted upon the beacon in winter. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) “It won’t be a pile long, when you cormorants get at it,” said Tom. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out Below them were broad pads of lotus and water lilies; with alligators like barnacled 39 logs, and cormorants swimming about, and bright-eyed waterfowl. Gold You know how the Chinese use cormorants as fish-catchers, putting rings about their necks to keep them from swallowing their prey. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North By this time all the floating bits of pork had been snapped up by this cormorant of the sea. The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold “Methinks the cormorant has a hard life of it,” observed the miser, smiling. Happy Days for Boys and Girls I saw that I was dealing with a cormorant. The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War Black cormorants going upwind flapped heavily by us just above the water, their necks stretched out. Gold He was tattered and muddy; besides he ate like a cormorant. The Century Handbook of Writing A bird evidently not far removed from its reptilian ancestors—a bird that is at home under the water and hunts its prey there on the wing—is the black cormorant. Under the Maples Instead of rods, lines, or nets, the Fing Fang family was provided with trained cormorants, which are a kind of bird with a long neck, large appetite, and a particular fancy for fish. Happy Days for Boys and Girls Then, what had been the cost of all those pheasants which one shooting cormorant crammed into his huge bag during one day's greedy sport? Marion Fay Another Northumbrian friend of the writer keeps, or kept, a pet cormorant, and finds him no less greedy in the domestic than in the wild state. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales He was tattered and muddy, besides he ate like a cormorant.Right: The Century Handbook of Writing But the latter soared high into the air as a cormorant. The Chinese Fairy Book Who would wish to resemble a cormorant at all? Happy Days for Boys and Girls Each as it came we hailed as an incalculable benefit to mankind, and so it was, or would have been, if we had not the appetites of cormorants and the digestive powers of elderly gentlemen. Another Sheaf The goddess gave the veil as thus she spoke, And to the tossing deep went down, in form 293A cormorant; the black wave covered her. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition I had given the papers to Lady Mary, and they had fled back to me swifter than cormorants. The O'Ruddy A Romance Alternating with these swimmers came occasional flocks of shag, a bird belonging to the cormorant tribe, and here and there a gull, though these last grew rarer as we increased our distance from the sea. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 The fish was, however, always taken away from the cormorant, and thrown by one of the Fing Fangs into a well at the bottom of the boat. Happy Days for Boys and Girls Trains, needed to supply the fighting men at the front with food and the wounded at the rear with medicaments, were kept back to suit the schemes of these greedy cormorants. England and Germany I have watched them through the burning day, And driven the vulture and raven away; And the cormorant wheeled in circles round, 48Yet feared to alight on the guarded ground. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Even the boats were of a strange form, and on the fishing smacks perched on projecting rails, sat rows of cormorants, each with a ring around his neck. Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan The return of the birds in the character of the cormorants of the western seas and guardians of the lake does not occur 148 in the old tale. Irish Fairy Tales “Cousin Ko,” said the miser, leaning forward to speak, “how is it that your clever cormorants never devour the fish they catch?” Happy Days for Boys and Girls And don’t you hear those dread croakings of gulls and cormorants flapping in the air, who have left their prey on the reef to join the vultures in their feast on the shore? Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life And almost before he had reached land, the old one came to him, and the cormorant skeleton was taken out of the kayak. Eskimo Folk-Tales Not far a lake extends, a space once fill'd “With human 'habitants, whose waves now swarm “With fenny coots, and cormorants alone. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II At one place on the coast of Japan there is cormorant fishing. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China I have no land to glut Thy dirty appetite, and make thee strut Nimrod of acres; I'll no speech prepare To court the hopeful cormorant, thine heir. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Besides, did I not with my own eyes see a black cormorant fly inland from the sea? The Maids of Paradise And coming to the foot of one of them, he saw that which he so greatly wished to see; the carrion of a big cormorant, which had now become a skeleton. Eskimo Folk-Tales It was darker in colour than the brown bread in England; and so acid, that the sailors, who were cormorants at food, and ostriches in digestion, declined the loaf as a gift. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition The cormorant, who most certainly knows he is being watched, dives to show off before admiring children. Highways and Byways in Surrey It was in vain the fish endeavoured to escape them—for the cormorant can glide rapidly through the water, and swim beneath with as much rapidity as upon the surface. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Over the turning tide cormorants were flying, now wheeling like hawks, now beating seaward in a duck-like flight. The Maids of Paradise And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Curlews, ptarmigans, cormorants, and ospreys are also seen in greater or less numbers. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands I read a book recently written by a woman who mothered an intellectual child of cormorant appetite. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation And then those cormorants have been told so also. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Spearing was also practised by fishermen, and in the rivers cormorants were used just as they are to-day. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The birds comprise a darter, a cormorant, a guillemot, and a penguin. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young The cormorant and puffin and guillemot can vanish at the flash of a gun, reappearing far from where they were last seen, and can pursue and catch some of the swiftest fishes under water. Birds in the Calendar And, to confirm this true, what think you of Fair Margaret, the only child, and heir Of cormorant Overreach? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 In making it they would enter into no end of expenses, the coin would leave the country and they would not understand it, and would be fleeced by the financial cormorants of Great Britain. The Life of Gordon, Volume II It is extraordinary to see the quantities of fishing cormorants there are in the creeks. The Life of Gordon, Volume I The cormorant and darter, though here classed for convenience' sake among the divers, really belong to the pelican family. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young The cormorant has a higher reputation of the sort to live up to than even the hog, and some of the hornbills, though less familiar, are endowed with Gargantuan appetites. Birds in the Calendar Gulls, bright pearly white or black as cormorants, according as the light struck them, were our only companions. A Poor Man's House These cormorant corporations, these so-called patriotic developers, whom you seek to exempt, shall pay their dues, if justice lives. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage These cormorants are in flocks of forty and fifty, and the owner in a small canoe travels about with them. The Life of Gordon, Volume I A name given to the cormorant in the Shetland Islands. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A pair of agitated cormorants, sunning themselves on the rocks, flew seaward with outstretched necks. The Long Trick It is a species of cormorant, and is so well trained that it is unnecessary to place either a cord or ring round its neck to prevent it from swallowing any of its prey. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With his prey laden; So toward the open main, Beating the sea again, Through the wild hurricane, Bore I the maiden. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Then, with a rush over the ledge, he plunges in, sending the cormorant off in affright, and taking possession of the prey it has left behind. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure A name of the cormorant in the Hebrides. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. During the slow progress up the river there was plenty of sport, and His Royal Highness won fine specimens of spoonbills, flamingoes, herons, cranes, cormorants, doves, etc. The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V And, because aviators, breathing rarer and higher ozone than most of the rest of us, are in consequence always as hungry as kites and cormorants, this particular Red Cross canteen does a rushing business. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little wingèd boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes In this case, however, the cruel sport has a different termination, by the cormorant being deprived of the prey it seemed so sure of. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure A name on our southern coast for the cormorant. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. They looked very large on the wing, as their white feathers glanced in the rays of the setting sun; but they are not more than half the size of the cormorant. A Yacht Voyage Round England Occasionally we came across a great boom of logs, travelling down to some sawmill; or a crested cormorant, seated on a fragment of drift, sailed for a while in our company. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Here and there we see a cormorant, seated alone on the branch of a dead tree; or a kingfisher poises himself over the water, watching for his prey. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The fish, alive and apparently uninjured, makes away through the water; but only for a short distance, ere it is followed by the cormorant and caught afresh. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure The name of the young cormorant in our northern isles. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. On the cliffs were ranged numerous clusters of black cormorants, who seemed to be watching us eagerly. A Yacht Voyage Round England These islands are still a great resort for seals, also for cormorants and sea-gulls; and the large speckled eggs of the birds are gathered in quantities, and brought to the San Francisco market for sale. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Mr. Ryland and a few other such cormorants could not tolerate the impertinent interference of the House of Assembly with their means of subsistence. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 We passed vast numbers of the Florida cormorants—a small species, which breeds in the mangrove islets. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting A name given on the coast of Sussex to the shag or cormorant. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Nat, who had landed with us, was very anxious to keep a young cormorant which he had picked up. A Yacht Voyage Round England The whirling swarms were hordes of cormorants, herons, terns and skimmers defying every known law of gravity in their mad evolutions. The Black Phantom I have, moreover, cut an embrasure, through which I can fire upon the gulls, herons, and cormorants, as they fly screaming past my nest. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) The cormorants, however, did not have it all their own way; for, watching their opportunity, numbers of ospreys and pelicans incessantly splashed down among them to rob them of their prey. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting A group of cormorants, either gorged with mackerel fry or hopeless of an evening meal, perched together at one end of the reef, and stared at the setting sun. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 We saw a number of cormorants diving in search of prey, and they came up with eels in their mouths. A Yacht Voyage Round England The black guillemots and cormorants kept to the cliffs near the shore. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II So saying, the Goddess gave into his hand The wond’rous zone, and, cormorant in form, Plunging herself into the waves again Headlong, was hidden by the closing flood. The Odyssey of Homer The Chinese have trained cormorants to do their fishing for them. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals A boat goes out with a number of cormorants trained for the purpose, which are fishers by nature. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics The gulls were even more numerous than the cormorants. A Yacht Voyage Round England A large number of seals were visible among the ice, and along with the cormorant a few other birds, principally phalaropes. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Wood wrote in his "New England's Prospects:" "No ducking ponds can afford more sport than a lame cormorant and two or three lusty doggs." Customs and Fashions in Old New England Jones felt no vindictiveness towards Voles now; disgust, such as he might have felt towards a vulture or a cormorant, but no vindictiveness. The Man Who Lost Himself They were more interested in the fishing with cormorants. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics The boats which went in pursuit brought back a number of gulls and puffins and cormorants, some of which Oliver begged might be preserved for stuffing. A Yacht Voyage Round England The wrong side in will yet turn right side out, The long-time lost come down yon cormorant spout. The Book of Humorous Verse She had found some outside work, but everything she made was rapidly swallowed up by her home cormorants. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike The serious occupations of my day were having dinner and tea, and the relaxations, buying shrimps in the fish-market and then giving them to the sea-gulls and cormorants. The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge Seals, penguins, petrels, cormorants, and gulls are found in considerable numbers. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania We met with vast numbers of puffins, cormorants, and sea-gulls, which inhabit the cliffs of the island; and we obtained some good specimens of their eggs. A Yacht Voyage Round England With long protruding neck the cormorants Wing their far flight aloft; and round and round The plovers wheel, and give their note of joy. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands I joined him, and together we followed the crowd to the river, where we roosted like cormorants on adjacent piles overlooking a patch of clear water among filled booms. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day “Come, let’s have a look for it; a cormorant’s egg would be a jolly addition to our collection.” Eric, or Little by Little He is a magnificent fellow, allied in some respect to the cormorant, but with shorter legs, and having a forked tail. A Voyage round the World A book for boys The egg of the cormorant is but little larger than that of a pigeon. A Yacht Voyage Round England Here and there a cormorant sat alone on the branch of a dead tree, or a kingfisher poised himself over the water, watching for his prey. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 I joined him, and together we followed the crowd to the river, where we roosted like cormorants on adjacent piles overlooking a patch of clear water among the filled booms. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life The return of the birds in the character of the cormorants of the western seas and guardians of the lake does not occur in the old tale. The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales And had Granya been caught into that evil problem, a kingfisher among cormorants? The Wind Bloweth It is as wicked as Nero, as gluttonous as a cormorant; and it makes cowards, slaves, lick-spittles of some of the best of men. Mitch Miller Shall we submit to insult? shall we sit down like frightened birds and see the black-livered cormorant steal what is ours? shall the courage of the Poloes be questioned by all the surrounding tribes? The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole There were ducks and geese of various kinds, and innumerable quantities of plover, cormorants, gulls, and eider-ducks, the eggs of which they found in thousands. Ungava It is reported that they were not always of their present form, but were birds aquatic and migratory, a species of cormorant. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Among the living lay the mangled corpses of yesterday's hunt, and over each fought and feasted a host of gannets, sea-gulls, and cormorants. Adrift in the Ice-Fields The promontories to the open sea are very fine: beetling cliffs of black, red, and green volcanic rocks, and here and there stand up rocky islets, the home of the cormorant and the bittern. Southern Arabia The last that they saw of Alf’s boat was in the hollow between two seas like a vanishing cormorant or a northern diver. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole A cormorant, balanced on the top of one of the perches outside Delginish, sat with wings outstretched and neck craned forward, peering out to sea. Priscilla's Spies “They must be, I suspect, from your account of them, Walter, cormorants, or rather that species of them known as the frigate-bird.” In the Eastern Seas A little ahead appeared a sand-bank, on which stood a number of tall-legged birds, cormorants, white cranes, and other waders, large and small. On the Banks of the Amazon Most of the birds we saw struck were cormorants, which, as they fell into the water, the blacks seized and wrung their necks. Adventures in Australia If ever I’m along with anyone who hears that noise and wants to know what it is I can tell him it’s a shag or a cormorant suffering from sore throat.” The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap Now and again cormorants, low flying with a rushing noise, break the oily surface of the water with every swift downward flapping of their wings. Priscilla's Spies No ordinary cormorant would fly as they do. In the Eastern Seas “After all that work, after being so sure, to be out here on this wretched shelf like an old cormorant, but without any wings.” Cutlass and Cudgel Because it’s so covered with cormorants and gulls. Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days And I have often watched the common divers and cormorants too, when frightened, swimming about with only head and neck out of water, and so looking more like snakes than birds. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds “Oh, you cormorants!” she cried, pretending to be in a great rage. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel As for the cormorants, if you complained about the former birds having a fishy taste, you’ll find these fishier still. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land At first one feels it is almost a sacred duty to satisfy, or attempt to satisfy, these psychic cormorants; but later, wisdom comes with experience. Seen and Unseen First Ilustrado: We long have profit made from rentals high And quiet sat, while, like the cormorant We gulped sweet morsels from their quiv'ring flesh; But soon we must their very forms devour. 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts As these fishes are very palatable and are much sought after by such enemies as cormorants and otters, it is highly probably that their power of self-effacement often saves their life. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told "Old cormorant wants more palm oil," muttered Chivey, and most reluctantly he drew from his pocket one of the gold pieces Herbert Murray had given him for the purpose of bribing the gaoler. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series “There’s seals and them penguins besides lots of cormorants and sichlike.” The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land The private interests and sordid passions into which that fund has already fallen fill me with anxiety and apprehensions that it will be squandered upon cormorants, or wasted in electioneering bribery. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Whilst attending to them, however, he kept glancing uneasily at the supper before Malsain, which was diminishing at a frightful rate, for the thin man ate like a cormorant. Orrain A Romance Great predatory birds like cormorants thronged the beach opposite the cave, she could see them going in and out of the cave and168 she could hear them quarrelling in there in the darkness. The Beach of Dreams The face of the cliff was plastered with seabirds: murres, gulls, sea-parrots and cormorants. Where the Sun Swings North Flocks of shags, or cormorants, also visited the bay at the same time. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land Sixty days later the speaker was "sleeping down in Tennessee," never more to be vexed by the clamor of the cormorants, or waked by the clients keeping watch at his door. Border and Bastille Long rows of dark cormorants, perched on rocky points, strained their necks and peered at her. The Simpkins Plot At a dizzy height above her cormorants had their nests, they seemed angry about something as they clanged and flew, shooting out into the sky and wheeling back again in an aimless manner. The Beach of Dreams The other passage has more of architectural quality in it, and describes what first met Satan’s gaze, when he entered the Garden and sat, perched like a cormorant, upon the Tree of Life. Romance Two Lectures When autumn came he would go back with renewed life and a pile of manuscript to feed to his hungry cormorant. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers And our men had the greatest trouble in catching those that were swimming away, for they dived not a whit worse than cormorants, so that we could scarcely catch hold of them. Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. He noted everything—the floating gulls and puffins, the stiff, wild-eyed cormorants, the jelly-fish, the whirling eddies of the tide. The Simpkins Plot I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.' The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book The rich do not please them: they are leeches, caterpillars, cormorants. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story You are a little cormorant: Grannie will give you nice tea when we get home. A Crooked Path A Novel The various species of egrets breed in colonies in trees in some village not far from a tank; in company with them spoonbills, cormorants, snake-birds, night-herons and other birds often nest. A Bird Calendar for Northern India As suggested by Mr. Ridgway, it is perhaps nearer the cormorant than anything else, although not executed with the detail necessary for its satisfactory recognition. Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 "I don't quite know what to be at with this poor old cormorant," he said, slow and cogitating. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs He compares the message of Thorwald to the cormorant shimming over the waves, and says he will never take it. The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga |
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