Cormorant fishing has been around for 1,300 years, but a changing climate and modern fishing practices threaten the centuries-old tradition. ... The rocks are key to growing algae, ...

During a trip to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, I had the opportunity to view the flightless cormorant. These cormorants have short stubby wings, and with those wings, can dive to amazing depths.

A cormorant lifts off from the water in the Upper Santa Cruz Harbor. ... Some cormorants are also known for their ability to use rocks as tools to help them open the shells of prey they have captured.

Brandt's cormorant chicks reach out to their mother as they feed in a nest on the rocks along West Cliff Drive adjacent to Natural Bridges State Beach.

Adachi is the 18th generation of his family to be a master cormorant fisherman, and one of about 50 people in Japan carrying on the 1,300-year tradition of using trained birds to dive for fish.

At its 2013 peak, this was the largest double-crested cormorant colony in North America, with some 30,000 birds, more than 40% of the species’ population in the western U.S., according to the Corps.