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" And yet, so great is the adaptability of some species, the Cormorant is by no means exclusively confined to the sea, has many inland breeding stations, and repeatedly wanders 172 from the coast to fresh waters, where an abundant supply of fish offers a solace to its great voracity.
There is but one other British species with which the Cormorant may be confused, and that is the Shag; but even then the difference in size is sufficiently great for the much larger Cormorant to be readily identified.
Very black, very heavy, and very clumsy the Cormorant looks, as he rises in slow cumbersome flight from the sea, or unfolds his big, bronzed-green wings, and flutters into the air from a rock shelf, or sea-girdled pinnacle; but very soon one’s opinion of him undergoes a change, as, when once fairly on his way, he passes swiftly enough over the sea to a distant resting place, or after flying some distance, pitches down into the water.
The colours of the Cormorant are not seen to best advantage at a distance.
As the breeding season approaches the Cormorant increases in 174 beauty; large white patches of silky feathers spring out from the thighs, and the dark head and neck become covered by feathery filaments of white.
Perhaps the Cormorant is most interesting when engaged searching for food.
After a meal the Cormorant is very fond of resorting to a rock to rest, and to dry its plumage, standing perfectly motionless with its wings uplifted and outspread.
Few, if any, birds can excel the Cormorant in diving: it vies with the very fish themselves, and seems as much at home beneath the surface of the water as in the air.
The Cormorant when taken young is easily 175 tamed, and from the earliest recorded times it has been trained to capture fish for its owner.
Willughby asserts that the trained Cormorant was carried hooded until cast off, but nowadays its bearer protects his eyes from a stroke from the bird’s beak, with a wire mask.
All who have witnessed this novel way of fishing testify to the bird’s marvellous skill in catching fish after fish, until the gular pouch will hold no more, when the Cormorant is taken, and the fish removed.
As the Cormorant returns for years in succession 176 to one particular spot to breed, there can be little doubt that it pairs for life.
In most places the Cormorant breeds in colonies, the size apparently varying according to the amount of accommodation.
Upon the coast the favourite breeding resorts of the Cormorant are ranges of lofty cliffs, and small low islands and reefs.
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