There are sizable numbers of Neotropical cormorants (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) that hang around the lakes near where I live here in Tempe. As I drove home this evening a flight of about ten of them were moving from one of the lakes westwards to another nearby lake. That sparked the posting of a poem.
Children imitating cormorants
Children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants.
Kobayashi Issa / translated by Robert Hass
<img src>
More like this
After hundreds of studies, it has been difficult to link fish predation by cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) to the reduction of fishing quality in Minnesota lakes. It appears that game fish such as walleye and northern pike make up from less than 1% to nearly 3% of the bird's diet.
tags: Neotropical Cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus,
tags: Neotropical Cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus,
tags: Brandt's Cormorant, Phalacrocorax penicillatus,
Is Phalacrocorax olivaceus the same species as Double-crested Cormorants?
The double-crested is P. auritus.