Tokyo — The "shrine island" of Miyajima is one of Japan's most iconic destinations. A quick ferry ride from downtown Hiroshima, the postcard-perfect locale is much-loved for its giant "floating" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a resident population under 1,500, the tiny island and World Heritage Site received almost 5 million tourists last year alone ...

In October, we see large flocks of birds moving in broken lines across the skies that don’t keep the strict formation of geese. These are the cormorants, our summer resident double-crested cormorants, ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threatens to wipe out that bird population in the United ...

The fall migration of shorebirds is underway in earnest. One summer resident leaving us is the double-crested cormorant. Historically, a serious competitor of commercial fishermen, the cormorant was ...

Cormorants have been the bane of fishermen since time immemorial. They are a very recognizable black and gray seabird with a very long neck and a voracious appetite for fish. These birds can be seen ...

Cormorants, like pelicans, are proof of the existence of fish in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (RBDD) and are a barometer of the resource that can be used by the locals, some professional ...

A vivid example of identification complexities that bedevil allied avian species is the one presented by two renowned fish hunters, the great cormorant (GC) and the Indian cormorant (IC). Though not a ...