Cormorants in a sentence

As the surf crashed against a barrier of sand, pelicans, cormorants and ospreys soared over the dark water.

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.

Double Crested Cormorants frenzy at the Sepulveda Basin.

On the men’s side, the Cowichan Eagles faced the Alert Bay Cormorants in their first game.

Along with aquatic species, some terrestrial species were detected such as possums, swamp wallabies, grey-headed flying fox, aquatic birds like cormorants, wood ducks and dusky moorhens.

Czech deputy agriculture minister Miroslav Skřivánek added that damages from cormorants amount to about €9 million in his country.

Double-crested cormorants have recently arrived on the Island for the season.

Fifty-one experts say in an open letter to John Yakabuski, Ontario minister of natural resources and forestry, that a hunt targeting double-crested cormorants slated to begin Sept. 15 has no basis in science.

In the imperiled Everglades, cormorants nest for the evening in Ten Thousand Islands, a maze of mangrove and shallow salt water off the coast of Everglades City.

Cormorants are easy to spot on Middle Island.

Until she was well in her 80s, Ms. de Groot would kayak out to the harbor breakwater, where hundreds of cormorants congregate.

A plan for managing the cormorants was put into place in 2015, but the Audubon Society of Portland says that the plan needs to be reviewed and updated.

He said otters and cormorants were believed to have done significant damage to fish numbers in recent years and as they had no natural predators, the wildlife was increasing.

Cormorants had disappeared from the lake (and all northern lakes) due to the use of DDT in the 1940s and 1950s, which made their eggs more fragile and reduced breeding populations. citation Ring-billed gulls are also considered a nuisance.

Cormorants vanished in the 19th century, but have since returned and are flourishing.

In the region where auks live, their only seabird competition is the cormorants (which are dive-powered by their strong feet).

Pelicans and cormorants join up with terns and oystercatchers to forage for fish and shellfish on the coast.

The feathers of cormorants soak up water and help to reduce buoyancy, thereby allowing the birds to swim submerged. citation Rictal bristles of a white-cheeked barbet Bristles are stiff, tapering feathers with a large rachis but few barbs.