Friday’s fireworks weren’t this year’s first big bangs along Lake Ontario. State natural resources agencies used “pyrotechnics” in April and May to haze double-crested cormorants out of Wilson and ...

GIFU—The designer best known for the Nanatsuboshi (Seven Stars) sleeper train has completed another lavish project, this one for private charters to see the city’s tradition of “ukai” cormorant ...

INUYAMA, Aichi -- This central Japan city has appointed two new staff members to serve as "usho," or cormorant fishers -- its ...

Cormorant fishing, a method that involves lighting a fire to lure sweetfish and catching them with tamed cormorants, is today a popular tourist attraction that marks the beginning of summer in Japan.

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White streaks of bird waste paint the steel trusses beneath the Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia River. Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests.

The flightless Galapagos cormorant is one of a diverse array of animals that live on the Galapagos Islands, which piqued Charles Darwin’s scientific curiosity in the 1830s. He hypothesized that ...

Shobu Tahara, right, and Kenta Kawamura, who were appointed to the position of "usho" cormorant fishers at the Inuyama Municipal Government, are seen at the city hall in Aichi Prefecture on July 1, ...

The flightless cormorant is one of a diverse array of animals that live on the Galapagos Islands, which piqued Charles Darwin's scientific curiosity in the 1830s. He hypothesized that altered ...