cormorant
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- noun
- /ˈkɔrmərənt/
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cormorán
- The National Audubon Society listed the double-crested cormorant as a species of special concern.
- Cormorant fishing
- Cormorant fishermen
- double-crested cormorant
Examples
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Pigeon guillemots paddle across the surface of a kelp bed below, and cormorants roost on offshore outcrops.
Academic text (2007) -
The initial object of Manzi's study was the practice and importance of cormorant fishing in Lake Erhai.
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You can see the Cape cormorant, the Bank cormorant--
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Then came 1972, one of the few good years in recent cormorant history.
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Many of the same cormorants breed and summer up north in the Great Lakes.
Academic text (2009) -
There is also a new cormorant nesting colony near the Cypress Grove Trail.
Academic text (2006) -
The state of Wisconsin declared cormorants endangered and began building nesting structures to help them return.
Academic text (2009) -
Dead trees on a Lake Champlain island testify to double-crested cormorants' effect on vegetation.
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Perched on a shoal marker, three ragtag cormorants guard the mouth of the inlet.
Academic text (1994) -
While fishing by the coast, we spotted a cormorant diving into the water to catch a fish.
Synonyms
A large dark sea bird with a long neck that dives to catch fish
A group of water birds called cormorants that live near water
How Long-Necked
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cormorant comes from the Latin words corvus 'raven' and marinus 'of the sea', so it originally meant 'sea raven' because the bird is dark and lives by the water. That's why a cormorant is a black, fish-eating seabird often seen drying its wings after diving.