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Cormorants
How do shags and cormorants avoid competition?
What is the difference between cormorants and shags?What adaptations do cormorants have?Are shags related to cormorants?Do cormorants have predators?...
What are cormorants predators?
Gulls, crows and jays and grackles are probably significant predators of cormorant eggs and chicks. Coyotes, foxes and raccoons may also prey on cormo...
What type of animal is a cormorante?
cormorant, also called shag, any member of about 26 to 30 species of water birds constituting the family Phalacrocoracidae (order Pelecaniformes or Su...
What do Great cormorant eat?
Feeding: Like other cormorants, the Great Cormorant feeds mainly on fish, supplemented in freshwater by crustaceans, various aquatic insects and frogs...
What do Great cormorant do?
They typically face into the wind and turn their backs to the sun. This behavior probably serves to warm them and help dry the plumage. It may also ai...
What do Cormorant do?
Cormorants are expert divers. Some dive as deep as 45 metres (150 feet). They speed along underwater via their webbed feet, using their wings as rudde...
How long do Cormorant live?
Cormorants live up to about 25 years in the wild. What animals eat cormorant?Do cormorants mate for life?Can you keep a cormorant as a pet?Why is it i...
How big do Cormorant get?
Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large seabirds. They range in size from the pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmaeus), at as little as 45 cm (18 in) an...
Do Cormorant migrate?
A: Cormorants do migrate, sometimes over long distances, but unlike many other migratory birds, they do not all migrate at the same time or to the sam...