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  Little Pied Cormorant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Little Pied Cormorant is one of the most common of Australia's waterbirds, occurring on water bodies of almost any size.
Little Pied Cormorants feed on a wide variety of aquatic animals, from insects to fish.
Little Pied Cormorants breed either in colonies or, less commonly, in single pairs.
www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/little_pied_cormorant.htm   (298 words)

  
 Cormorant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Guilin, China, cormorant birds are famous for fishing on the shallow Lijiang River.
The names "cormorant" and "shag" were originally the common names of the two species of the family found in Great Britain, Phalacracorax carbo (now referred to by ornithologists as the Great Cormorant) and P.
Cormorants are colonial nesters, using trees, rocky islets, or cliffs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cormorant   (668 words)

  
 BIRD SIGHTINGS AT SPURN BIRD OSBERVATORY
Seabirds ; Cormorant 13, Arctic Skua 2, Bonxie 1, Mediterranean Gull 1, Little Gull 3, Commic Tern 43, Auk sp.2.
Seabirds ; Manx Shearwater 1, Gannet 27, Cormorant 15, Arctic Skua 3, Mediterranean Gull 1, Little Gull 2, Kittiwake 2, Auk sp.
Seabirds ; Fulmar 1, Manx Shearwater 1, Gannet 80, Cormorant 24, Arctic Skua 18, Bonxie 1, Yellow-legged Gull 2, Kittiwake 4, Auk sp.
www.spurnpoint.com /julybird04.htm   (2345 words)

  
 Letter to FWS regarding EIS for Double-crested Cormorants
We also are aware of the Congressional letters to the FWS and the slaughters of cormorants occurring in the U.S. But please note that on August 10, 1998, seven members of Congress wrote to Director Clark expressing their concerns over the illegal killing of migratory birds including the Little Galloo Island slaughter.
Cormorants are just one of myriad biotic and abiotic factors, including water quality, aquatic habitat, natural predation, and angler take, that can affect sport fish populations.
The Service currently does not issue cormorant depredation permits to benefit sport fish populations in public waters, but is exploring potential options that could be used to deal on a case-by-case basis with localized cormorant predation when it has been proven to be a significant problem.
www.abcbirds.org /policy/cormorant_letter.htm   (3031 words)

  
 Australian Museum - Wild Kids - Birds - Little Pied Cormorant
Cormorants are often seen sitting in trees and on rocks with their wings outstretched sunning themselves and drying their wings.
Little Pied Cormorants are waterbirds that live near salt water along coastal Australia and fresh water in inland areas of eastern Australia.
Little Pied Cormorants use sticks to make platform nests in trees near the water or on the ground.
www.austmus.gov.au /wild_kids/birds/cormorant.htm   (216 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Little Cormorant is a popular fishing lake that provides good, all-around angling in between winterkills.
Very little walleye spawning habitat exists in Little Cormorant Lake and the walleye fishery is maintained by biennial fry stocking.
This species is not only a popular angling target in Little Cormorant, but also an important forage fish for predators like walleye, northern pike, and largemouth bass.
www.mnlakelots.com /LittleCormorant-Lot1.html   (253 words)

  
 Weekly Fishing News - GLSFC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This project in Little Galloo Island was chosen because of the populations of cormorants that have existed on the island over the last twenty-five years.
It is evident from this investigation and data resulting from other assessments performed in the area, that the over population of the double crested cormorant on Little Galloo Island has had an adverse effect on the ecosystem of the area.
All efforts should be made in the future to control the population of the double crested cormorant and to keep the populations away from the other uninhabited islands in the area, especially the other islands and/or mainland areas, which are populated by humans.
www.great-lakes.org /12-6-99.html   (1956 words)

  
 Little Cormorant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Little Cormorant (Phalacrocorax niger) is a member of the (Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish) cormorant family of (A bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.) seabirds.
Little Cormorant is mainly glossy fl in the breeding season, with white head (A feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament) plumes and a whitish throat.
A wide variety of (Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills) fish are taken.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/little_cormorant.htm   (312 words)

  
 Detroit Lakes, MN Fishing Report - Minnesota - LakePlace.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The walleye bite is still a little slow in the area although a 9 pound beauty was caught this past week on White Earth Lake.
Little Cormorant, Prairie, Sand, Lida, Crystal, Floyd, Cotton, Little Detroit, and Little Pelican are your best bets for some panfish.
Little Detroit, Cotton, Little Pelican, Lida, Crystal, Prairie, Little Cormorant, Floyd, Cotton, Round, and Big Toad are all kicking out panfish in 10-18 ft. Find some greener coontail or cabbage and you will get on fish.
www.lakeplace.com /pg.php?pg=detroitlakesfishing   (5542 words)

  
 Willie Wagtail
There is relativity between size of the fish and the length of the tale, but the end result will be, that unless he was using a cormorant for tackle, that had to be one fish the cormorant didn't catch.
Cormorants are gods creatures he tells me, and their job in his gods master plan is to ensure that there are many snags as possible in rivers.
When the fish start to become a little scarce in any particular part of a river, the cormorants decide among them, which tree would be appropriate to topple into the water.
barmahbunyip.topcities.com /shag.html   (1265 words)

  
 NatureWorks -Double-crested Cormorant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The double-crested cormorant is a little more than two feet long with a wingspan of about four feet.
The double-crested cormorant breeds from the coast of Alaska and Nova Scotia south to Mexico and the Bahamas.
The double-crested cormorant dives for fish and marine invertebrates from the water's surface.
www.nhptv.org /natureworks/doublecorm.htm   (214 words)

  
 Latest news – updated 9 July 1999
Heron (3), Little Grebe (1), Gt Crested Grebe (22), Mute Swan (96), Canada Goose (33), Wigeon (1186), Gadwall (59), Teal (101), Mallard (117), Shoveler (17), Pochard (144), Tufted Duck (116), Goldeneye (1), Goosander (3), Cormorant (16), Coot (703), Moorhen (8), Black-headed Gull (21), L.B.B. Gull (8) and Lapwing (110).
Very little open water around but a patch on the Allen Pit held 6 Goosander, 4 of which were males as well as good numbers of Wigeon and assorted other ducks.
The Little Owl was back in it's usual bush at the far end of the Fisherman's Car Park beside the pile of hardcore.
homepage.ntlworld.com /thomas.stevenson/latest.htm   (2784 words)

  
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Seabirds ; Fulmar 5, Manx Shearwater 7, Gannet 54, Kittiwake 152, Little Tern 6, Auk sp.
Seabirds ; Little Tern 8, Auk sp 2.
Seabirds ; Fulmar 2, Manx Shearwater 1, Gannet 70, Cormorant 6, Kittiwake 2, Sandwich Tern 35, Little Tern 14, Auk sp.
www.spurnpoint.com /junbird04.htm   (1474 words)

  
 Sakonnet Point Light History
The iron pier was put into place on Little Cormorant Rock, about 800 yards offshore, and then filled with concrete.
Heavy seas in the fall of 1883 caused the remainder of the construction to be put off until the spring, and the lighthouse was completed in October 1884.
Carl Haffenreffer bought the lighthouse for $1,300 at auction in 1961, saying, "I was afraid someone was going to paint it pink or haul it away for scrap," The Haffenreffer family kept the lighthouse painted, hiring bridge painters to do the job, but the upkeep was expensive.
www.lighthouse.cc /sakonnet/history.html   (794 words)

  
 Little Pied Cormorant at Bushy Park Wetlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cormorants are sometimes called Shags and are often seen with wings extended drying their feathers which are not water repellant like most other water birds.
The Little Pied Cormorant can be mistaken for the larger Pied Cormorant which is 15cm longer and has a yellow patch in front of the eye.
Like other cormorants they can swim under water to catch their prey.
home.vicnet.net.au /~fbpw/lpcormorant.htm   (275 words)

  
 Sakonnet Point Lighthouse Guide
Later, the town was renamed Little Compton and incorporated as a part of Plymouth Colony in 1682.
After the war, fish from the Sakonnet River was primarily used for fertilizer and the enrichment of animal feed until 1880.
A Lighthouse was needed on the east side of the Sakonnet River to mark the entrance to the harbor and wharf at Sakonnet Point.
home.comcast.net /~debee2/ri/Sakonnet.html   (700 words)

  
 Surfbirds Birding Trip Report: Australia (Sydney to Cairns), July 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The coastal scrub habitat here revealed little of interest although a Sooty Oystercatcher was present on the rocks east of the lighthouse and a school of Bottle-nosed Dolphins impressed as they dived in and out of the water just offshore.
I, along with a couple of Dutch birders, took a ride in the Ocean Spirit's beach boat to the sandy spit on the other side of the island where Black-naped Terns were resting but despite constant searching for the duration of our stay on the island we could not locate any Black Noddies.
With temperatures averaging 42ºC, birding was extremely tiresome and often difficult - each time one left the hotel and its cool air conditioning, entering the sweltering heat meant an immediate mist on my optics for the first 10 minutes or so until the optics became acclimatized to the outside air temperature.
www.surfbirds.com /trip_report.php?id=254   (4956 words)

  
 Fauna Rescue Of South Australia Little Pied Cormorant
After gaining a variety of opinions about the situation, we returned to the vet and requested an Xray to be taken to ensure there was no lead sinker left in the stomach that could cause a slow death from lead poisoning.
Next day we brought home a very hungry cormorant that was most unhappy to go without fish for two more days and have his daily injections.
He then progressed to frequent little feeds of small pieces of fish fillet and then to small fish again.
www.faunarescue.org.au /piedcormorant.html   (503 words)

  
 Cormorant : Shag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
These are medium to large seabirds, usually with dark plumage with areas of coloured skin.
When they are done fishing, cormorants go ashore to dry their wings by holding them out in the sun.
I went in, and was somewhat astonished to find the aunt seated between at her needle.
www.city-search.org /sh/shag.html   (482 words)

  
 Austraila 1997
Went directly to Phillips Island to watch the "Little Penguins" suddenly pop out of the surf in a mob and waddle right past us, within 3 feet, and then into their nests.
In this report each bird is noted the first time I saw them, and I normally did not repeat them in future cities, unless they were very numerous, a special form or were just neat.
Sunny, 75°F. Out of our hotel room was a flocks of Galah and Rainbow Lorikeet, Yellow-throated Miner (fl-eared form) with babies coming out of their nest, a ring-tailed opossum going into a hole in the tree for the day, Fairy Martins, flocks of Pink Cockatoo (Major Mitchell), flock of New Holland Honeyeater, bushy opossum.
www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/AustraliaMH97.html   (796 words)

  
 Painet: stock photography and digital pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Sightings 2005 Vogelplas Starrevaart en Vlietland
October 25 - Little Grebe 1, Common Shelduck 27, Common Teal 122, Northern Pintail 10, Common Goldeneye 4, Eurasian Oystercatcher 9, Pied Avocet 3, European Golden Plover 20, Dunlin 3, Ruff 4, Black-tailed Godwit 2, Spotted Redshank 10.
October 21 - Little Grebe 1, Greylag Goose 262, Tufted Duck 280, Common Goldeneye 5, Western Marsh Harrier 1, Eurasian Sparrowhawk 1 (staying on mud flat), Water Rail 1 (near hide), Eurasian Oystercatcher 4, Pied Avocet 2, European Golden Plover 180, Dunlin 4, Common Snipe 145, Black-tailed Godwit 5, Spotted Redshank 33, Common Stonechat 1.
Meeslouwerplas: Little Grebe 2, Savi's Warbler 1, Blackcap 2, Long-tailed Tit 2.
www.xs4all.nl /~sjaak/vwgvl/en/sightings   (10737 words)

  
 British Isles Birding -&--&- by Richard Bonser
The afternoon was spent on a whale watching boat with the only birds seen being a few Australasian Gannets, Crested Terns and Silver Gulls — though superb views of at least 4 Humpback Whales and 12 Bottle-nosed Dolphins (from the harbour) made amends.
July once again parking at Licuala State Forest, I walked the Licuala Walking Track for c.3 kilometres in the direction of the El Arish Road, failing to note any Cassowaries although fresh droppings were evident on the path.
Although he has not been seeing Great-billed Heron regularly since 2000, this trip offers a good chance of seeing Little Kingfisher — one was seen on my trip as well as several Shining Flycatchers, at least one Australian Hobby, three Papuan Frogmouths and a Channel-billed Cuckoo.
www.freewebs.com /richbonser/foreigntripreports2.htm   (4768 words)

  
 Birds: Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax melanoleucos (Vieillot, 1817) - Little Pied Cormorant
Phalacrocorax perspicillatus Pallas, 1811 - Spectacled Cormorant
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris (Brandt, 1837) - Little Black Cormorant
www.phthiraptera.org /Birds/Phalacrocoracidae.html   (101 words)

  
 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
These comments are submitted on behalf of the American Bird Conservancy regarding the Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS and National Management Plan for the Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) published in the Federal Register on November 8, 1999 at Vol.
Symposium on Double-Crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest
Issues surrounding the continued efforts for control of populations of cormorants to reduce impact on fish farms, sport fisheries, breading facilities.
www.aquaculturemag.com /siteenglish/interneted/news/con.html   (3079 words)

  
 SGP Project Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
These are the African race of Grey-headed Gull (Larus cirrocephalus),Long-tailed Cormorant, Greater Cormorant and Little Egret.
The islands are the only known breeding sites for the Grey-headed Gulls, Long-tailed Cormorant, Greater Cormorant and Little Egret, and certainly the largest for the Greater Cormorant in Uganda.
Other species found breeding on the Island whose numbers have not been ascertained include the Sacred Ibis, Egyptian Goose, Common Moorhen Black Crake, Spur-winged plover and various species of weaverbirds.
www.undp.org /sgp/cty/AFRICA/UGANDA/pfs3885.htm   (268 words)

  
 Bird Names - L
Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris © Paul Gullan
Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos © Paul Gullan
Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos © Wendy Opie
www.viridans.com /birdpics/lbird.htm   (309 words)

  
 BIRDS OF PELICAN POINT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Most of the CUCKOOS are migrants while the range of resident and visiting HONEYEATERS at Pelican Point is expanding all the time as the planted trees grow, flower and fruit.
Rare visitors have included a Little Ringed Plover and Satin Flycatchers.
As you walk the Pelican Point trails you will be aware of many different birds in the trees, grassland, water water’s edge and overhead.
www.treat.net.au /BIRDPELP.htm   (211 words)

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