The double-crested cormorant is one of many seabirds that love to eat salmon. Many of the birds were driven away from East Sand Island near the mouth of the Columbia River decades ago in an effort to ...

Have you ever been so hungry that you don’t even bother to chew? That kind of approach is an everyday thing for cormorants, a family of seabirds that dine exclusively on fish and swallow them whole.

Cormorants perch in December on the seaside span of the Astoria-Megler Bridge, a crucial connection of Highway 101 across the Columbia River. The bridge is home to the largest colony of double-crested ...

The murky mocha-colored water in Lake Augusta is as off-putting as the source of its pollution: bird droppings, lots of them. Every fall, thousands of migrating double-crested cormorants roost in the ...

Humans and birds have a rich and complex history together. Some birds, like the carrier pigeon or the bald eagle, have stronger ties to us than most. The cormorant, believe it or not, is one of these ...

The PLASMIG research project is funded by the European Union via a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action postdoctoral fellowship awarded to Suzanne Bonamour. In response to rising temperatures (estimated at ...

The double-crested cormorant wins no prizes for beauty or popularity, but it might win prizes for abundance and for fish eating. Therein rests the cormorant's problem with the other prizes. The bird ...

A eucalyptus tree in a Marina del Rey park that was home to dozens of soon-to-hatch double-crested cormorant eggs became unstable after strong winds, prompting a rescue mission to remove the eggs ...