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" ...

BirdLife International has rejected proposals from eight EU Member States to reclassify Great Cormorant as a huntable species ...

In October, we see large flocks of birds moving in broken lines across the skies that don’t keep the strict formation of geese. These are the cormorants, our summer resident double-crested cormorants, ...

LIKE THE PIGEON, the cormorant tends to be an underappreciated bird. On first glance, they are not particularly glamorous. Although I was surprised to see a couple of them skimming over the ocean a ...

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 ...

I ran to the Turtle Ponds lasts week, a preserved area near where I grew up, to whistle at the turtles, to let them know that I’m still thinking of them. Where I usually stand in the thicket to ...

They voraciously gobble game fish and steal nesting grounds from other birds. Their droppings turn small islands into smelly sewers. Even the Bible frowns on them. For many frustrated anglers in the ...

Cormorants, like pelicans, are proof of the existence of fish in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (RBDD) and are a barometer of the resource that can be used by the locals, some professional ...

If you were like many northwest Piedmont residents, you might have spent a week or so at one of North Carolina’s beaches sometime over the summer. And if, while you lounged in your beach chair, you ...

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