Tokyo — The "shrine island" of Miyajima is one of Japan's most iconic destinations. A quick ferry ride from downtown Hiroshima, the postcard-perfect locale is much-loved for its giant "floating" ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threatens to wipe out that bird population in the United ...

Many aquatic animals like frogs and turtles spend a big part of their lives under water and have adapted to this condition in various ways, one being that they have excellent hearing under water. A ...

While many migrating seabirds have passed through here over the past two months, one bird that can be found sitting atop old pilings and buoys throughout the year is the double-crested cormorant, ...

The double-crested cormorant, infamous for raiding Southern catfish farms, now appears to pose a significant threat to the Great Lakes smallmouth fishery. This is the conclusion of several Great Lakes ...

P.E.I. fish and wildlife officials are seeing an increase in the number of great cormorants on the Island this year, and while numbers still aren't back to what they once were they say it's a step in ...

Europe requires a common management strategy for cormorants in order to reconcile nature conservation and fishing interests. An effective regulation of cormorant populations can only work at the ...

A study of the breeding biology of the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) was carried out during 1993-1998 in the Po River Delta, a major wintering area in northeastern Italy. The first of ...

Reproductive success and the intensity of five separate seasonal sexual characters, expressed similarly in both sexes and likely to be dependent on age and/or individual condition, were documented at ...

The great cormorant has more sensitive hearing under water than in air. This new knowledge may help protect vulnerable bird species. Many aquatic animals like frogs and turtles spend a big part of ...

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