On an island in the middle of the pond, cormorants hunch like dispirited monks. |
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Vocalizations are variable with species, and range from the sharp piercing whistle of the tropicbirds to the guttural grunting of cormorants. |
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As it grows in the river from an egg, it's bothered by brown trout, preyed on by goosanders and cormorants as well as mergansers. |
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Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes. |
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The green central island is inhabited by ducks, cormorants, Canada geese and other territorial waterfowl. |
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Our guide, Peter, pointed out the cormorants, kites and spoonbills resting in the gums and coolabah trees and warned us about the Joe Blakes. |
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Flocks of terns and cormorants fished offshore, while fronds of kelp writhed in the surf like the flailing arms of sea monsters. |
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It was the noise of thousands of baby cormorants, razorbills, gannets and guillemots, demanding food from their nests on the cliffs. |
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Various kittiwakes, puffins, cormorants and gulls are common birds found here. |
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It is very galling if you go to a water and find half a dozen cormorants there, looking as though they have had a really good feed. |
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Ducks, coots, teals, terns, gulls, cormorants, waders, egrets, plovers and herons are some of the birds that assemble here. |
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This year, the zoo has received nearly 500 painted storks and cormorants, local migratory birds that have come in from nearby States. |
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Another project is to find out why double-crested cormorants tend to pluck catfish fingerlings out of some ponds but not others. |
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They are preyed on by herons, cormorants, kingfishers, goosanders, large trout and eels. |
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Fire baskets or cressets mounted at the prows of the fishing barges seem to attract prey for the cormorants. |
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Hundreds of gulls, cormorants and fulmars nest in the cliffs and in burrows on cliff-edges. |
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Most common are bears, orcas, sea lions, seals, otters, eagles, terns and cormorants. |
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It has her musing about cormorants, nautical terms and charts, spiders, ecology, conquistadors and hats on Parisienne heads. |
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The lines of supporting buoys have been adopted by cormorants, gulls, guillemots, eider ducks, oystercatchers and even the odd heron. |
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This is a great opportunity to see herons, cormorants, kingfishers and sunbitterns. |
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As well as many types of gull you will see eider ducks, mergansers, black guillemots shags and cormorants. |
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A variety of birds make their homes around the harbour including yellow eyed and blue penguins, black back gulls, and five types of cormorants. |
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Seabirds like pelicans, penguins, and cormorants are highly vulnerable to oil, which can cover their feathers with a gluelike substance that can immobilize the animals. |
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Here, one of the birds spreads its wings to let its plumage dry in the sun, an attitude which is highly characteristic of cormorants and their relatives. |
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There were more stretches through wilderness and spotting shoals of fish, cormorants, cranes, owls, spoonbills, kingfishers, woodpeckers, and a few snakes. |
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The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to the castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs. |
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Brandt's Cormorants, like other cormorants, are colonial nesters. |
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One practice entails tethering cormorants by the neck, pulling them back to the boat after they successfully procure fish, then extracting the fish from the bird. |
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We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend. |
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Avian swimmers such as penguins and puffins and ducks and cormorants, as well as sea turtles and other water-dwelling reptiles, must also come up for air. |
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Some anhingids breed in colonies alongside cormorants or herons. |
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We were extremely fortunate that the cormorants were in breeding plumage. |
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I looked up to dozens of cormorants whooshing softly overhead. |
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The nesting population of double-crested cormorants is too large and threatens to denude the island flora and extirpate the associated fauna. |
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There are also flies whose larvae develop only in the tracheal passages of red kangaroos and lice that live in the throat pouches of cormorants and pelicans. |
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More kids climb on a riverside playground, and in the water beyond is a handful of cormorants, including one taking off low to the water like a seaplane. |
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Other birds of the region include species of cormorants, pintails, gulls, terns, sheathbills, and pipits. |
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The grey heron was anyway considered to be the best of a group of birds with similar lifestyles, to wit other herons and night herons, egrets, bitterns, and cormorants. |
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In short a landscape on naturalness in the middle of 3 volcanos and cormorants which will accompany you. |
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Some 245 species live here, including swans, ruffs, gulls, terns, a few species of ducks and grebes, cormorants and geese. |
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The population of cormorants is far lower than wood pigeons, which are almost in their millions. |
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Many colonies of Magellan penguins, sea lions, cormorants and of guanacos populate these amazing landscapes. |
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Advancing along the path, walk a short distance, which also is prepared for bird watching, you can see cormorants, mallards and coots. |
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Sweden has in several cases allowed the hunting of cormorants and rooks during the rearing season. |
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This applies mainly in birds like cormorants, boobies, frigate birds and gulls. |
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Ring-billed gulls and jet black cormorants swirl overhead, the waters of the Ottawa swirl below, the canoe spins and twists like a floating leaf. |
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In addition, herons, cormorants, gannets, grebes, shelducks, pochards, and terns recolonized the river environs. |
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In the bald trees on the riverside, cormorants and darters bustle about, occasionally you can hear the call of the osprey. |
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In addition, many species of cormorants, grebes, gulls, jaegers, loons, pelicans, and terns feed either entirely or mainly at sea. |
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We get excited until one of them flies off, clearly proving themselves to be cormorants. |
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I'm pleased to see the fecal flow hasn't driven the ducks and cormorants away. |
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For many gulf coast gulls, terns and cormorants, this has been a lethal mistake. |
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An assortment of native ducks and other waterbirds populate the wetlands, and cormorants are common on the coast. |
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The responsibility for research on cormorants also rests with the provinces. |
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In the Great Lakes, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of breeding cormorants in the last 30 years. |
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Join Chip Weseloh, Wildlife Biologist, as he goes out to study birds such as cormorants, night-herons and herring gulls in this 7 minute video. |
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The sky is busy with gulls and the exposed sands and stones are playgrounds to coastal waders, including oyster catchers, cormorants and sandpipers. |
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In this lagoon, brown pelicans, double-crested cormorants, great and snowy egrets, and numerous terns and gulls forage for fish and other items of food all day long. |
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Bare silver tree trunks beckon you into the lost world of hooded cormorants, stone curlews, crimson dragonflies and rare herbs that inhabit the Bolata marsh. |
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Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more. |
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The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to Dunstanburgh Castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs. |
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Impacts have also been reported on wild ducks, cormorants and otters. |
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In the case of cormorants, probably the only protection for fisheries and aquaculture activities consists in the management of the stillgrowing wild populations. |
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The Secretariats hopes that the Conservation and Management Plan will serve as a model for other actions of this kind undertaken in favour of cormorants in other regions. |
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The bird points its head slightly upwards during swimming, but less so than cormorants. |
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Safety guidelines for using the Desman laser and Dissuader laser to disperse double-crested cormorants and other birds. |
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In the fall, visitors can find migrating mergansers, cormorants and buffleheads on the lake. |
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Herons, cormorants, mute swans, kingfishers and many species of geese and ducks are regularly sighted on the river. |
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Researchers have tested a low-tech solution to the problem of poaching by double-crested cormorants, often called water turkeys. |
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In April of 1999, nine individuals pleaded guilty to inhumanely killing more than 1,000 double-breasted cormorants on Little Galloo Island in the eastern basin of Lake Ontario. |
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A variety of birds are found: from blue foot, red footed and masked boobies, flamingos, frigate birds, and albatrosses, to unique small penguins and non-flying cormorants. |
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The seabirds feed mainly on crustacea, fish, and squid, mostly at the surface or, in the case of cormorants and penguins, at depths of up to about 150 feet. |
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Steve has also seen a dipper, grey herons and cormorants that frequent the sewage works site along the river at Cooper Bridge. |
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The Conservation Section experts do not consider this population decrease worrisome since fluctuations of this sort are normal for double-crested cormorants, and the long-term population trend in the park is upward. |
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The brown booby was with a group of double-crested cormorants, a common local waterbird similar in size and coloring to the booby. |
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Additionally, the coastal mudflats, mangroves and rice-fields are estimated to hold up to another 500,000 waterbirds such as herons, cormorants, pelicans, ducks, geese and waders. |
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Idrisi describes an island of cormorants with which Corvo, Cape Verde has been tentatively identified, but on weak grounds. |
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This early definition included frigatebirds, cormorants, and sulids as well as pelicans. |
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Lithuania is also home to hundreds of species of birds, including white storks, ducks, geese, swans, cormorants, herons, hawks, and even an occasional bald eagle. |
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Some people are now saying that there are over a million cormorants overwintering on European inland waters, although other researchers consider this a rather inflated figure. |
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They rarely land on water with their feet stretched forward like pelicans or cormorants. |
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Recently they are reported to have attacked and eaten great cormorants and in some cases destroyed whole colonies. |
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In Guilin, China, cormorants are famous for fishing on the shallow Lijiang River. |
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Phalacrocoracidae is a family of some 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. |
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After fishing, cormorants go ashore, and are frequently seen holding their wings out in the sun. |
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All cormorants have preen gland secretions that are used ostensibly to keep the feathers waterproof. |
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Some sources state that cormorants have waterproof feathers while others say that they have water permeable feathers. |
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With the exception of the cormorants and some terns, and in common with most other birds, all seabirds have waterproof plumage. |
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At Haweswater, the fishery officers are now culling all of the cormorants that visit the lake, in order to protect the endangered fish. |
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Among the bird that can be seen in the marshes are grebes, dabchicks, cormorants, cranes, common spoonbills, geese, ducks, ralids, shorebirds, gulls and terns. |
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Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters, scissor-bills, adjutants, pelicans, cormorants, cranes, whimbrels, plovers, and ibises. |
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Other species, such as some of the storm petrels, diving petrels and cormorants, never disperse at all, staying near their breeding colonies year round. |
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Many birds live largely as scavengers, regularly pirating food from otters and other birds including cormorants, gulls, ospreys and various other raptors. |
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Killer whales in many areas may prey on cormorants and gulls. |
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A variety of seabirds can be seen close to the seaside, which is home to colonies of cormorants, gulls, razorbills, northern gannets, common murres and Atlantic puffins. |
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When fishing in groups, all pelican species have been known to work together to catch their prey, and Dalmantian pelicans may even cooperate with great cormorants. |
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These are openbill storks, night herons, egrets and cormorants. |
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No consistent distinction exists between cormorants and shags. |
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Specialist feather lice of the genus Piagetella are found in the pouches of all species of pelican, but are otherwise only known from New World and Antarctic cormorants. |
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This is one of the rules that protect the giant tortoises, flightless cormorants, Darwin's finches, and other plants and animals found only in Galapagos. |
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Birdlife includes flamingos, sea gulls, cormorants, wild fowl, pintails, shovelers, blackwinged stilts, teals, crab plovers, avocets and grey herons. |
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Second, it makes it easier to deal with the fossil forms, the systematic treatment of which has been no less controversial than that of living cormorants and shags. |
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The proposed Bill doesn't address the damage caused by environmental problems, drift netting at sea, and predation on rivers by seals, cormorants, goosanders and mergansers. |
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