Neotropic Cormorant

- Cormorants are black waterbirds with reptilian necks and short legs that are often found near lakes and coastlines
- Typically 24 inches long, 2 to 4 pounds weight, 40 inch wingspan
- Known for their deep diving abilities to catch fish
- Cormorants are colonial nesters who nest together in large groups called colonies

- Common around the ponds and lakes in southern Arizona

Collaborative cormorant camaraderie at Agua Caliente Park ...

==> [Few beasts have such a bestial reputation as the cormorant. It has been called the “bird from Hell”, “black death”, “devil bird” and “fish terrorist”. Fishermen despise it. Poets and novelists have captured it ominously. Where did the bird go so wrong? Gordon McMullan, a professor of English at King’s College London, argues that the cormorant has been “caught up in the tendency of human culture to sort animals into binary categories of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, imposing a moral perspective on nature.]  --Economist magazine