Cormorant fishing on China's Li River is all but dying out. Fisherman set out with domesticated cormorants, a seabird, on bamboo rafts before sunrise and often in the early evening. These birds prey ...
Many kinds of bird regularly forage for prey underwater. These birds have a variety of ways of doing so and adaptations to match. Life in the water is very different from life in the air. The first ...
Eel is on the menu. Incredible wildlife snapshots capture the intense moment when an eel is captured by a hungry bird’s beak. The eel wrestles with a cormorant for its life in the murky seas off the ...
Cormorants are long-necked, long-billed diving birds. They swim underwater like fish, fly in a V like geese, roost like chickens and paddle around in the water like loons. In short, they are weird.
Researchers recently fitted a South American sea bird called an imperial cormorant with a small camera, then watched stunned as it became 'superbird' -- diving 150 feet underwater in 40 seconds, ...
The National Audubon Society announced the winning photographs of the 2020 Audubon Photography Awards.
You might think there’s no safer place underwater than snugged to the side of the largest fish on Earth. But you would be wrong. Divers watched in awe as a particularly persistent bird called a ...
A diver had a cormorant for company near Rye Pier, Victoria, recently, saying that normally they “freak out and take off” when they see a human, but that this one was just too focused on hunting for ...