cormorant• And the water is again perfectly blue, the gulls and cormorants fishing as always.• Icebergs that last for a week or longer provide perches for bald eagles, cormorants and gulls.• A nestingcormorantglared at us with green eyes, its black feathersglossed with a purplesheen.• Swimming among the floodedtrees are great rafts of cormorants, often 5,000 strong.• Maybe the cormorants were staying home today.• It was easier to act out the cormorant fishing.• Among those first to die were cormorants and black-necked grebes.• Seabirds were badly affected, with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die.
Origincormorant
(1200-1300)Old Frenchcormareng, from corp“raven (= large black bird)” + mareng“of the sea” (from Latinmarinus; → MARINE)