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I hang out with these guys sometimes when I'm fishing. They're pretty polite though, they've given me no trouble, and sometimes they'll show me schools of fish.
I'm from Samara, Russia, and never thought cormorants could be found where I live. However one summer, a pair of these either nested or just hung around a lake near our countryhouse. They sunned themselves, sitting on dead trees in those signature poses, wings spread. Gave me a bit of a fright, sometimes zooming underwater below me when I went swimming)) At first we called them black ducks, not really knowing who they were. After a lot of research we, to out surprise, identified them as cormorants. Wish they'd come again, they were so fascinating to watch!
Idk where you find which bird, but there is another black fishing bird called anhinga that look just like cormorants and live the same way lol If you don't normally have cormorants where you live then they might be anhingas that you're seeing 👍
I'm also from Russia, from the South Ural region, and same! When I found out about our local cormorants I was just as shocked, because we are as far away from the oceans as anyone can be xD But these great cormorants (which is what you have in Samara too) breed and hunt on the ponds and lakes in the city, as well as throughout the region. Birds are simply amazing. I've also read recently that in Baikal the local people want to eradicate their cormorant population because of the same reasons of them eating fish. Sad :(
@@EmpressOfExile206 I just looked up anhingas, and I'm still pretty sure we've seen cormorants :) Anhingas seem to have slightly longer necks and sharper beaks than the birds I saw. I remember them very clearly, for they were not at all scared of me and allowed me to watch them very closely, lol! Thanks for the suggestion, though! 😁
Ive never seen cormorants but ive heard that theyre fascinating and known for their distinctive hunting style and unique postures while drying their wings
Yay! Cormorants!!! I never understood why they were so negatively regarded as a simple bird observer! Guess I know why now! Still love them! They remind me of loons which is one of my favorite species of birds!❤
We have double-crested & Brandt's cormorants on our local beaches. I love watching them dive. It always amazes me how long they can stay under and how far they will swim while submerged. And, of course, seeing them drying their wings on boats, docks, buoys & jetties is always cool.
I'm not well versed in the science of diving, but a quick look told me that 140 meters in a 1 minute dive is pretty wild in and of itself. Thanks, Animalogic team!
Gotta say all these years watching animalogic, Danielle just does a great job explaining the specialties and uniqueness of each animal in a wonderful way. You make complicated topics come across very relatable!
I'm from Samara, Russia, and was surprised to spot cormorants near our country house one summer. They’d perch on dead trees with wings spread, and sometimes dive under me while I swam, giving me a scare! At first, we called them 'black ducks,' but after some research, we realized they were cormorants. It was amazing to watch them, and I hope they come back one day!
I wonder what influence over natural habitat they have in the long run. They may kill some trees but weren't they part of the ecosystem for millennia. Maybe it's a small piece to pay for all the nutrients they bring to the shore
Hey, I live in Wales' and cormorants are one of my favourite birds to see. I used to live close to the coast and it was one of my favourite things to see cormorants sunning themselves on the rocks and cliffs. Now in the city of Cardiff they are still abundant in parks with lakes. The Welsh name for them is Fran y Môr in the dialect where I'm from, Ceredigion, which translates to the crow of the sea or sea ravens. By the rest of Wales they're known by the name Mulfran which means the same thing. Love to see them. They used to be used by fishermen in the 19th and early 20th century but the practice died out. It involved them having ropes around their neck where the fishermen would pull them back after they'd caught the fish and would have them regurgitate their catch in a fashion similar to the Heimlich manoeuvre. We used to learn about them in school and it was fascinating but glad it's out of practice. Still a lovely sight along with the gannets.
Their continued presence around the same coasts where fishermen used to work is a great sign of how we can all live together. And it's a great example of animals not going extinct if we have used them for our own purposes but decide to stop doing so for ethical reasons; this is akin to the argument that some fervent meat eaters use, more worried about specific cattle breeds dying out if we don't continue to exploit and consume them.
@@AncientWildTV That's a vast question to answer under this video but if you ask me, we already seem to be aware enough about outlawing practices like using cormorants for fishing. So if we allow ourselves to be think critically and not use tradition as an argument, we'd realise that drinking milk from other mammal species as an adult is absolutely wild and does not justify the individual or environmental harm and damage of the modern agro-industry
How interesting. I lived in South Florida nearly all life and with this topic in particular, I’m more than aware about the presence of cormorants since they’re so common that they even show up in places where water was placed in residential areas. What I didn’t was that they had such a bad reputation and after watching this video, it’s understandable. I was thinking about certain countries in Asia that use them for fishing and I’m glad to see that it was mentioned here. Thank you for this info, Dufault.
Great episode! Can you please tell whoever is doing the MUSIC to turn it down? It should never be trying to compete or distract from the narration. Very distracting and does not fit what the content is at all.
I used to really dislike theses birds, as during a travel on boat around the world, in Dakar (senegal), the cormorants were numerous (as this coast has a lot of fish) and tended to roost on the spreaders of the mast, leaving massive stinky dropping on the deck below (and sometimes almost on us)... And they were difficult to chase away, so we had to clean often. But I admit, videos like theses tend to rehabilitate them a bit.
I remember being introduced to Cormorants by a fun poem about nesting in a paper bag. I like them and think of them as our native version of the much cooler Frigate bird.
I'm in Northern California and the double-crested cormorants are the most common species in my area and they're quite common in the Bay Area. When I visited Monterey Bay, I saw my first pelagic cormorant. When I visited San Diego Zoo, I saw white-breasted cormorants (a subspecies of the great cormorant) for the first time.
I’m from Spain, we have two species of cormorants here, the great cormorant and the common shag. I have never heard anyone talking badly about cormorants, I never thought they were hated in the US
Hi Danielle! I really like your paleo art at the museum. You may have done a video on the pangolin already and I have not seen it. If not, can you guys create one? I didn't even know about them until a couple of years ago. It might be my favorite animal now after the dog.
Wondering now what cormorants' grratest natural predator is, considering they are a sign of a healthy water ecosystem but sinultaneously are now causing havoc on local tree ecosystems. Feel like humans must have killed off their natural predator for them to now be considered such a pest. Sad that it always goes that way now
This was an especially nice video. I like all of the animalogic videos but I like this one especially because of the cladogram, the academic tone, and the information density. I hope to see more videos include information about etymology and evolution. I also like Dufault's new style, a bit more serious, a bit less high pitched and cutsie, but she still seems natural and true to herself.
I live near Liverpool. The liver bird is partially based on the. My daughter & I one saw 16 cormorants on one day. From Liverpool to Chester. Mainly in Chester & the river Dee Average is 1 or 2 if that.
Back in the early 70ies these birds were not present in central Europe and regarded exotics. We saw them with reports from the Galapagos Islands and other remote places. Nowadays cormorants are a familiar view at nearly every body of water containing fish.
I live in the Range of the great Comoran. Near a Colony in a small protected Area by a Lake. They often hunt by the Damn wich is close by. I thought they Nest in death Trees... Here they are mainly hated by Fisherman, protected for some Time and found nearly everywhere there's Water, Fish and Distance too People so they can fly/dry in Peace.
“DDT… was a chemical prevalent in the ecosystem.” Kinda burying the lede and skirting over the fact that it was prevalent because of widespread human use?
I might have an idea for an episode. Another bird who's starting to get a similar bad reputation, and facing culling events like with the cormorant: The Barred Owl. It's one of my favorite birds here in New England, but I know that its seen as an invasive species in the west, and is causing trouble for the Spotted Owl.
In Denmark the regurgitated pellets from cormerants have actually been used for studying their eating habits/prefered prey; it's done by analysing the fish otoliths in the pellets. Otoliths are species specific as well as informing of prey age and thus estimated size. This data can then be used for evaluating the health of water systems but is also relevant for the debate on the cormerants' impact on fisheries, and whether or not regulated hunting should be reinstated. Cormerants have historically been hated by fishermen, and they were hunted to extinction in the country in the 19th century. They did return in the mid-20th century, but were still hated and legally shot. However, after being deemed a protected species in the 80s, their numbers have exploded, leading to renewed debates on their impact on fisheries (though such debate never really ended in the first place). That is why such studies on the cormerants' actual impact on fisheries is so important. Though I just want to note, that I do not advocate for either side with this post; it is a complicated matter that I am not familiar enough to make such judgement. Also my source is just me remembering being told this by a forrest ranger/administrator/educator(?) years ago, so... And lastly just a fun fact: The common Danish name for a cormerant is "skarv", but an older name is "ålekrage" litterally meaning "eel crow" :)
Being an adventurous person, I've told others that if I had to be another animal, I think I would want to be a cormorant. It can walk on land, fly in the air, and even swim to deep depths underwater. It's sort of the Navy SEAL (Sea Air Land) of the animal kingdom.
You forget to mention that they're often able to eat smaller fish even through their noose. Anyways, they have to feed their cormorants well enough in the end because of the investment that goes into training them in the first place. Depending on the type of cormorant fishing, the birds may be free to fly away once their noose is removed if they aren't satisfied with the amount of fish they get to eat. An example of a type of fishing that is truly cruel is boat fishing with ridiculously huge nets that capture too many fish and often also capture animals that were not meant to be picked up, even after regulations were put in place to require a certain net hole size to let small fish through. Next time if you comment about something you think appears to be cruel, please first look into the topic more deeply.
Could you please ask Tasha The Amazon to do it video on liverworts?They're mentioned in so many videos about evolution, but if you're lucky you'll get a glimpse of a stock photo - I',d really like to know more instead of just being told a 100th time, that they were among the first land plants! Animals?How about silver ants? They're kinda cool!
Wait so Alewives are invasive in Ontario and apparently doing well,but they're endangered in their native habitats like Maine;where we took a bunch of dams down to encourage their return. Umm I'm seeing an opportunity here,but I don't know how difficult they are to transport and keep alive.
Despised? Maligned? 🤔 Are they invasive or something, somewhere? I thought they were established in their respective ecosystems. In Asia, they’re even tamed and trained by fishermen. They’re found in so many areas.
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I hang out with these guys sometimes when I'm fishing. They're pretty polite though, they've given me no trouble, and sometimes they'll show me schools of fish.
That’s pretty cool bro. Hope you share some fish with them after they’ve shown you where to fish 😊😊
I'm from Samara, Russia, and never thought cormorants could be found where I live. However one summer, a pair of these either nested or just hung around a lake near our countryhouse. They sunned themselves, sitting on dead trees in those signature poses, wings spread. Gave me a bit of a fright, sometimes zooming underwater below me when I went swimming)) At first we called them black ducks, not really knowing who they were. After a lot of research we, to out surprise, identified them as cormorants. Wish they'd come again, they were so fascinating to watch!
Idk where you find which bird, but there is another black fishing bird called anhinga that look just like cormorants and live the same way lol
If you don't normally have cormorants where you live then they might be anhingas that you're seeing 👍
Thanks for sharing!
I'm also from Russia, from the South Ural region, and same! When I found out about our local cormorants I was just as shocked, because we are as far away from the oceans as anyone can be xD But these great cormorants (which is what you have in Samara too) breed and hunt on the ponds and lakes in the city, as well as throughout the region. Birds are simply amazing.
I've also read recently that in Baikal the local people want to eradicate their cormorant population because of the same reasons of them eating fish. Sad :(
@@EmpressOfExile206 I just looked up anhingas, and I'm still pretty sure we've seen cormorants :) Anhingas seem to have slightly longer necks and sharper beaks than the birds I saw. I remember them very clearly, for they were not at all scared of me and allowed me to watch them very closely, lol! Thanks for the suggestion, though! 😁
Ive never seen cormorants but ive heard that theyre fascinating and known for their distinctive hunting style and unique postures while drying their wings
Oh so this is what the Pokemon Cramorant was adapted from. Very cool
Yay! Cormorants!!! I never understood why they were so negatively regarded as a simple bird observer! Guess I know why now! Still love them! They remind me of loons which is one of my favorite species of birds!❤
I love cotmorant they are one of my favorite animals. I always see them when i go walk near the beach
I see them in Kansas. And I think they are wonderful. Love them
my favorite bird! I had no idea some people hated them :(
Its so cool seeing a cormorants perch. Such a regal looking bird!
i got bit saving one of these not too long ago. they're so adorable
I was in Grande Prairie Alberta in 2007. I was surprised to see cormerants in the local river and park pond.
I love these birds! They are always a welcome sight at any body of water.
We have double-crested & Brandt's cormorants on our local beaches. I love watching them dive. It always amazes me how long they can stay under and how far they will swim while submerged. And, of course, seeing them drying their wings on boats, docks, buoys & jetties is always cool.
I always get excited seeing them in the Everglades as well as their non hooked bill relative the anhinga
thank you for a well balanced presentation!!
No wayyy! Just today I took some nice photos of cormorants near my hometown! That's timing!
I'm not well versed in the science of diving, but a quick look told me that 140 meters in a 1 minute dive is pretty wild in and of itself.
Thanks, Animalogic team!
Gotta say all these years watching animalogic, Danielle just does a great job explaining the specialties and uniqueness of each animal in a wonderful way. You make complicated topics come across very relatable!
So interesting! Sure I’ve seen them, but have I really seen them. Now I will
We do appreciate you. You are wonderful also.
The largest species is The Flightless Cormorant of The Galapagos Islands
Two weeks in a row of Danielle! I feel like I won the lottery!! Best host ever!!!
I'm from Colombia. Very interesting video of Cormorants, many thanks for introducing it.
I'm from Samara, Russia, and was surprised to spot cormorants near our country house one summer. They’d perch on dead trees with wings spread, and sometimes dive under me while I swam, giving me a scare! At first, we called them 'black ducks,' but after some research, we realized they were cormorants. It was amazing to watch them, and I hope they come back one day!
I love them, they are common here, but still, we had a lot more of them in the 80's.
I really love what Toronto is doing to adapt to and love side-by-side with the birds.
Huh, I didn't know they were so widespread. For some reason I'd always associated them with Asia. That's really cool that they're all over the place.
I seen these birds in Woodmere Park and I didn't know they had a bad reputation
I wonder what influence over natural habitat they have in the long run. They may kill some trees but weren't they part of the ecosystem for millennia. Maybe it's a small piece to pay for all the nutrients they bring to the shore
I love that saying: “beady little eyes”
Hey, I live in Wales' and cormorants are one of my favourite birds to see. I used to live close to the coast and it was one of my favourite things to see cormorants sunning themselves on the rocks and cliffs. Now in the city of Cardiff they are still abundant in parks with lakes. The Welsh name for them is Fran y Môr in the dialect where I'm from, Ceredigion, which translates to the crow of the sea or sea ravens. By the rest of Wales they're known by the name Mulfran which means the same thing. Love to see them.
They used to be used by fishermen in the 19th and early 20th century but the practice died out. It involved them having ropes around their neck where the fishermen would pull them back after they'd caught the fish and would have them regurgitate their catch in a fashion similar to the Heimlich manoeuvre. We used to learn about them in school and it was fascinating but glad it's out of practice. Still a lovely sight along with the gannets.
Their continued presence around the same coasts where fishermen used to work is a great sign of how we can all live together.
And it's a great example of animals not going extinct if we have used them for our own purposes but decide to stop doing so for ethical reasons; this is akin to the argument that some fervent meat eaters use, more worried about specific cattle breeds dying out if we don't continue to exploit and consume them.
@@NewAge374 How do you think we can promote more sustainable practices that balance the needs of both wildlife and agricultural interests?
@@AncientWildTV That's a vast question to answer under this video but if you ask me, we already seem to be aware enough about outlawing practices like using cormorants for fishing.
So if we allow ourselves to be think critically and not use tradition as an argument, we'd realise that drinking milk from other mammal species as an adult is absolutely wild and does not justify the individual or environmental harm and damage of the modern agro-industry
@@NewAge374 thats understandable. I wonder if they could come up with any alternatives
Espectacular programa.
Excelentes locaciones .Felicitaciones
First time I saw a group of cormorants drying themselves in a dead tree I asked my parents if we had bats 😂
We have a pair hanging out in a couple of the neighborhood retention ponds for the past month or so.
Muy buen video, además de enseñar, tiene hermosas locaciones.
Los felicito.
Please make a video about aardvarks.
YES.
I may or may not have thought cormorants were only a Pokémon…
How interesting. I lived in South Florida nearly all life and with this topic in particular, I’m more than aware about the presence of cormorants since they’re so common that they even show up in places where water was placed in residential areas. What I didn’t was that they had such a bad reputation and after watching this video, it’s understandable. I was thinking about certain countries in Asia that use them for fishing and I’m glad to see that it was mentioned here. Thank you for this info, Dufault.
Never seen a cormorant despite going to the Black Sea coast every summer in my childhood.
Buen programa. Me gustó. Gracias Animalogic.
I saw a few today! I am in porto madero, Buenos Aires.
Great episode!
Can you please tell whoever is doing the MUSIC to turn it down? It should never be trying to compete or distract from the narration.
Very distracting and does not fit what the content is at all.
Best freediver in the bird world? All the species of penguin feeling pretty disappointed now
I used to really dislike theses birds, as during a travel on boat around the world, in Dakar (senegal), the cormorants were numerous (as this coast has a lot of fish) and tended to roost on the spreaders of the mast, leaving massive stinky dropping on the deck below (and sometimes almost on us)... And they were difficult to chase away, so we had to clean often. But I admit, videos like theses tend to rehabilitate them a bit.
1:38 "the best free-divers in the bird world"? I'm pretty sure penguins might have an edge there.
Specifically Emperor Penguins
I remember being introduced to Cormorants by a fun poem about nesting in a paper bag. I like them and think of them as our native version of the much cooler Frigate bird.
We have cormorants in Colorado. They live in ponds and lakes.
I'm in Northern California and the double-crested cormorants are the most common species in my area and they're quite common in the Bay Area. When I visited Monterey Bay, I saw my first pelagic cormorant.
When I visited San Diego Zoo, I saw white-breasted cormorants (a subspecies of the great cormorant) for the first time.
Another interesting animal!
cormorants have beautiful blue eyes 🤩
I don't know why, but they make me think of dodo birds.
Danielle, you look great, girl!!
New look 👍🏽
Wait what, as a birder I have never heard of them being considered pests.
I’m from Spain, we have two species of cormorants here, the great cormorant and the common shag. I have never heard anyone talking badly about cormorants, I never thought they were hated in the US
Hi Danielle! I really like your paleo art at the museum. You may have done a video on the pangolin already and I have not seen it. If not, can you guys create one? I didn't even know about them until a couple of years ago. It might be my favorite animal now after the dog.
Thanks so much! And we did! th-cam.com/video/QY1qqZiaTU8/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
@@animalogic Thank you! 👍❤️
Wondering now what cormorants' grratest natural predator is, considering they are a sign of a healthy water ecosystem but sinultaneously are now causing havoc on local tree ecosystems.
Feel like humans must have killed off their natural predator for them to now be considered such a pest. Sad that it always goes that way now
Cramorant 💙🤍💙🤍
That's why it has Gulp Missile as ability
This was an especially nice video. I like all of the animalogic videos but I like this one especially because of the cladogram, the academic tone, and the information density. I hope to see more videos include information about etymology and evolution. I also like Dufault's new style, a bit more serious, a bit less high pitched and cutsie, but she still seems natural and true to herself.
Watched them at Rockport.. I think.
I live near Liverpool. The liver bird is partially based on the.
My daughter & I one saw 16 cormorants on one day. From Liverpool to Chester. Mainly in Chester & the river Dee
Average is 1 or 2 if that.
I want an episode about sponges
I will never say it right because I was introduced to them by Pokémon
ohhh so that's why cramorant's pose is like that while a pikachu on their mouths
Back in the early 70ies these birds were not present in central Europe and regarded exotics. We saw them with reports from the Galapagos Islands and other remote places.
Nowadays cormorants are a familiar view at nearly every body of water containing fish.
I'm brazilian. Here we have a lot of these birds! The name here is "biguá"
I live in the Range of the great Comoran. Near a Colony in a small protected Area by a Lake. They often hunt by the Damn wich is close by.
I thought they Nest in death Trees...
Here they are mainly hated by Fisherman, protected for some Time and found nearly everywhere there's Water, Fish and Distance too People so they can fly/dry in Peace.
“DDT… was a chemical prevalent in the ecosystem.” Kinda burying the lede and skirting over the fact that it was prevalent because of widespread human use?
I might have an idea for an episode. Another bird who's starting to get a similar bad reputation, and facing culling events like with the cormorant: The Barred Owl. It's one of my favorite birds here in New England, but I know that its seen as an invasive species in the west, and is causing trouble for the Spotted Owl.
The darkside of nature!
In Denmark the regurgitated pellets from cormerants have actually been used for studying their eating habits/prefered prey; it's done by analysing the fish otoliths in the pellets. Otoliths are species specific as well as informing of prey age and thus estimated size.
This data can then be used for evaluating the health of water systems but is also relevant for the debate on the cormerants' impact on fisheries, and whether or not regulated hunting should be reinstated.
Cormerants have historically been hated by fishermen, and they were hunted to extinction in the country in the 19th century. They did return in the mid-20th century, but were still hated and legally shot. However, after being deemed a protected species in the 80s, their numbers have exploded, leading to renewed debates on their impact on fisheries (though such debate never really ended in the first place). That is why such studies on the cormerants' actual impact on fisheries is so important.
Though I just want to note, that I do not advocate for either side with this post; it is a complicated matter that I am not familiar enough to make such judgement.
Also my source is just me remembering being told this by a forrest ranger/administrator/educator(?) years ago, so...
And lastly just a fun fact: The common Danish name for a cormerant is "skarv", but an older name is "ålekrage" litterally meaning "eel crow" :)
Being an adventurous person, I've told others that if I had to be another animal, I think I would want to be a cormorant.
It can walk on land, fly in the air, and even swim to deep depths underwater. It's sort of the Navy SEAL (Sea Air Land) of the animal kingdom.
we dutch people call the eeldevourers
The scourge of the Leslie spit
Cormorant fishing is not very nice. The fisherman tie a noose around the birds' necks to stop them from swallowing the fish.
You forget to mention that they're often able to eat smaller fish even through their noose.
Anyways, they have to feed their cormorants well enough in the end because of the investment that goes into training them in the first place. Depending on the type of cormorant fishing, the birds may be free to fly away once their noose is removed if they aren't satisfied with the amount of fish they get to eat.
An example of a type of fishing that is truly cruel is boat fishing with ridiculously huge nets that capture too many fish and often also capture animals that were not meant to be picked up, even after regulations were put in place to require a certain net hole size to let small fish through.
Next time if you comment about something you think appears to be cruel, please first look into the topic more deeply.
So they're basically humans if we were birds
Another way to describe them is that they are OP
Triphibian creatures are awesome.
To be honest, your sketch at first caused me to think your drawing a Pidgeot haha
how do you 'discourage' nesting in trees?
Could you please ask Tasha The Amazon to do it video on liverworts?They're mentioned in so many videos about evolution, but if you're lucky you'll get a glimpse of a stock photo - I',d really like to know more instead of just being told a 100th time, that they were among the first land plants!
Animals?How about silver ants? They're kinda cool!
Could you please do a video on the genus of ants “Myrmecia”
The sunfish of the... uhhh....... air?
i really thought it was bouta be called cormo dome
it can even swallow electric powered mice!
Great show! But what is up with the terrible audio quality for some of the clips?
Yeah! Lots of compression artifacts. I wonder if it’s the recording or bad playback on TH-cam’s end?
Hi, please do a video on peafowl (peacock and peahen)
Animalogic have you seen The Wild robot?
chinese fisherman use it for fishing a fish in the river if i'm correct source .............
Please do cougars next.
I like the idea of cormorant condominiums distracting from the trees, telling the birds "y'all do what you want, just do it here and not there".
Leucocarbo nivalis: snow-white coal.
Hey I know that pokémon!
I’m wonder where the “World of Birds” lady go???
Pokemon
Great tail crackles
Wait so Alewives are invasive in Ontario and apparently doing well,but they're endangered in their native habitats like Maine;where we took a bunch of dams down to encourage their return. Umm I'm seeing an opportunity here,but I don't know how difficult they are to transport and keep alive.
There is still debate regarding the cormorant etymology, refer to the French wiki to learn more about this.
Can you do a video on Chamois?
Despised? Maligned? 🤔 Are they invasive or something, somewhere? I thought they were established in their respective ecosystems. In Asia, they’re even tamed and trained by fishermen. They’re found in so many areas.
They're clearly just as evil as black cats and carrion crows. You just don't have the mind of a medieval peasant to see that ;)
Yes, they're a pest.
@@kenneth9874 That's a very human-centric term. Just because you don't like an organism doesn't mean you can call it a pest and kill it happily anyway