double-crested cormorant

March 30, 2024

Cormorants add colonies but decline in coastal Virginia

By: Bryan Watts3/31/24  On the 29th of May 1978, Charlie Blem, the ornithologist in the biology department at Virginia Commonwealth University, was checking a cattle egret […]
January 13, 2022
Adult with young in colony near Hopewell, Virginia

Virginia Cormorants Continue Historic Rise

By Bryan Watts1/13/2022 The double-crested cormorant is a widespread species throughout North America with significant breeding populations in the Northeast, Great Lakes, Pacific Northwest and Alaska.  […]