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Diamond Jim Brady was perhaps the most celebrated cormorant of the Gilded Age.
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Visitors may spot snowy egrets, great blue herons, banded cormorants, wood storks, black vultures and anhingas – a.k.a.
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Each day consists of 90-minute tours leaving 8-11 a.m. with Audubon docents to learn about (and spot) herons, egrets, osprey and cormorants, among others.
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Cruise among the ducks, geese, and cormorants, then walk the pond path before skipping over to Centre Street for imaginative cocktails and an intimate dinner at Ten Tables (reservations recommended).
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Wood that drifts into estuaries becomes perches for hungry bald eagles and herons; rafts for weary cormorants, pelicans, and seals; and nurseries for herring eggs.
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Scientists believe penguins descended from cormorants, a group of aquatic birds that persist today, and later evolved and spread.
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Brian Fagan’s is the first general survey of its kind, and it is packed with intriguing details (like the Chinese training cormorants to catch fish for them) as well as with persuasive generalisation.
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Birds required to be protected include anhinga, cormorant, great blue heron, great egret and snowy egret, all of which have different nesting periods.
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The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and sea reptiles made way for sea-diving birds like cormorants and penguins.
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CORMORANT Defined for English Language Learners
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: a type of dark-colored bird that has a long neck and that eats fish that it catches in the ocean
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