Cormorants

* There are several links to forum discussions on the cormorant near the bottom of this page.

Hat and Gull Islands:

Cormorants eat their fill at urban Las Vegas pond

Feb. 14, 2009

LAS VEGAS—While Canada geese, ring-necked ducks and mallards waited for handouts, a lone cormorant seemed uninterested in bread crumbs a visitor tossed into the pond at Las Vegas' Lorenzi Park.

The cormorant, one of the double-crested varieties of the large, water bird typically found patrolling coastal areas, had its eye on the silvery flash of a rainbow trout—just one more fish destined not to get fried by anglers who frequent the park.

The cormorant paid no attention to a sign posted in the chest-high water warning anglers at the lake several blocks northwest of downtown Las Vegas to heed a "3 fish limit.".........

More.

Casperson: Time to go after cormorants

Birds cause trouble on Beaver Island

Voracious black birds come for dinner, and stay and stay

http://www.wluctv6.com/news/content.aspx?id=67716

Cormorants under fire May 4, 2008

On Thunder Bay, researchers said the migratory bird has devastated whitefish and stocked brown trout......

Double crested Cormorant: smelly pest, or natural marvel? May 28, 2008
The Rise of the Double-crested Cormorant on the Great Lakes:
Winning the War Against Contaminants

From the Great Lakes FACT SHEET

Andy's Fishing Diary

I was quite intrigued by the cormorant attack on my fish, I was a bit sceptical and thought that although the bird had attacked the fish, it was unlikely that he could have swallowed it. How wrong I was, check this article out from the Daily Mail...........

Snapped! The moment a fearsome pike is swallowed whole by a ravenous cormorant

Service Biologist Presents Results of Yellow Perch Analysis to Wisconsin DNR

Wildlife managers thinning cormorant flocks near Oscoda, in U.P. May 7, 2008

and again from the Michigan Bird Conservation Initiative:

http://www.mibci.org/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=6

OSCODA - As double-crested cormorants swarm back to Michigan this month, wildlife managers say they're launching a more aggressive strategy to cut the fish-eating birds' numbers.

Plans to thin cormorant flocks statewide target Lake Huron's two largest nesting colonies: on Thunder Bay near Alpena and on the eastern U.P.'s Les Cheneaux Islands...............

Cormorant Conundrum by Sharon Moen

"It use to be, 'What in the world is that?' But now it's, 'Oh no, not another one of those bleeping cormorants,'" laments Mike Lint, co-president of the Minnesota Fish and Bait Farmers from his fish farming business in West Central Minnesota. "You can scare pelicans off a fish pond, but cormorants are relentless."

Protecting Fish from Cormorants – The Potential for Using Fish Refuges

USDANEWS Cormorants vs. Catfish In Miss.

Fish and Wildlife aims to reduce cormorants by 50 percent

Alpena County Coordinator Jeff Thornton said Tuesday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is going to try reducing the number of cormorants in Thunder Bay this year by 50 percent.............

Scientists hoping cormorant control project will succeed

The Cormorant: 'Black Plague' Or An Example Of Successful Species Conservation?

VNP to study Kab Lake cormorants, Journal Staff Report (Minnesota)

.......Determine prevalence of diseases such as West Nile virus, Newcastle disease, and avian influenza, including the highly pathogenic strain HPAI, in local cormorant populations........

State Studies Show Cormorants' Toll on Fish

STUDIES FOCUS ON FISH-EATING CORMORANTS ON GREAT LAKES

Cormorant Control

Cormorant Control, Flint River Valley Steelheaders

DNR Cormorant Report

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/Sec502CormorantReport_213182_7.pdf

Legislation / Bill

http://www.dnr.state.mi.us/legislationdocs/position/SB%20354%20Analysis.htm

Beaver Island, Beaver Beacon, Cormorant Forum

About the Cormorant:

Wikipedia

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service