Cormorant Wars
by Elizabeth Winter
Title
Cormorant Wars
Artist
Elizabeth Winter
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Cormorants are the deepest diving birds and can dive 120 to 300 feet deep (the numbers vary in different reference books).
They are excellent fisherbirds, in fact they are so good at catching fish that cormorant species in Asia (there are approximately 37 cormorant species in the world) have been trained to catch fish for people. For every seven fish they catch, the cormorant gets to eat one.
Cormorants do not have waterproof feathers. It turns out that waterproof feathers stink for diving, so instead cormorants kept feathers that are easily waterlogged to help them sink and dive faster. This is why you’ll often see them with just their heads sticking out of the water because their feathers are waterlogged and weighing them down and you’ll also see them sitting on rocks with their wings spread out drying their wet feathers.
After eating, cormorants regurgitate pellets containing indigestible fish bones and animal parts just like barn owls regurgitate mouse bones.
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Comments (37)
Kathy M Krause
Great capture of these cormorants Elizabeth! They're interesting birds to watch! Thank you for the description. L/F
Mary Lou Chmura
Awesome capture, on these cormorants; nicely done! There seems to be a little bit of a disgreement going on here. f/l
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