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Cormorant


Definition:

  • (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese.
  • (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.

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  • (1) • Sustainable tourism company Sumak Travel offers tailor-made journeys to Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico Los Islotes , Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico Steve Backshall , naturalist and TV presenter Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Just two hours from La Paz in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Los Islotes is a rocky California sea lion colony, peppered with resting blue-footed boobies, cormorants and pelicans.
  • (2) Bird life is abundant and includes oystercatchers, ibis, egrets and cormorants.
  • (3) And the Olympic torch completed its remarkable journey, the penultimate stage undertaken from Hampton Court to Tower Bridge on the prow of the gilded Gloriana, at the head of a flotilla of rowboats that drew curious glances from the cormorants, herons and great crested grebes in their haunts by Richmond Bridge.
  • (4) It's home to pelicans, cormorants, herons and dozens of other bird species, along with the carp, trout and eel that end up on the area's dinner plates.
  • (5) Pesticide sources could not be determined, partly because migratory species such as ducks, mutton birds, cormorants, and eels may have ingested pesticides outside of Tasmania.
  • (6) Visitors understandably make a beeline for the big-name big game parks like Yala, but sharing sunrise over the lagoon with Indian pond herons, black and yellow bitterns, a dazzling purple swamp hen, black cormorants, a peacock surveying the scene from a rocky perch and even a small crocodile, had its own magic.
  • (7) Detailed evidence has been collected from the following three groups of studies on herring gulls in the lower Great Lakes during the early 1970s; Forster's terns in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1983; and double-crested cormorants and Caspian terns in various locations in the upper Great Lakes from 1986 onwards.
  • (8) were found in double-crested cormorants and common loons in Florida.
  • (9) Shared epitopes to P450 IA1 and IA2 were seen on a single protein expressed in liver microsomes from the cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).
  • (10) His hair is cormorant-black, he flashes ebony eyes and his smile reveals a row of pearly white teeth which look ready to plunge into a meal of little girl burgers.
  • (11) The erythrocytes of the adult Cormorant contain two hemoglobin components in a ratio of 83% Hb A to 17% Hb D. The primary structures of the alpha A-, alpha D- and beta-chains are presented.
  • (12) It’s not a desert, though: on a walk you might spot cormorants or great crested grebes.
  • (13) The mean erythrocyte count of the cormorant is similar to that of penguins but lower than that of flying, non-diving sea-birds.
  • (14) One morning I opened the curtains to see a cormorant swimming westwards, fish-like and gleaming, slowly followed by a gaggle of foraging Canada geese.
  • (15) DDE, PCBs, and mercury residues were highest in cormorant and petrel, intermediated in alcids, and lowest in eider and tern.
  • (16) Red cell enzymes: glucose phosphate isomerase, phosphofructokinase, aldolase and enolase are higher in the cormorant than in the little penguin; glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase, monophosphoglyceromutase, pyruvate kinase, lactate dehydrogenase and glutathione reductase are lower.
  • (17) Several species of colonial fish-eating birds nesting in the Great Lakes basin, including herring gulls, common terns and double-crested cormorants, have exhibited chronic impairment of reproduction.
  • (18) PCBs (quantitated as Aroclor 1260) were found mostly in cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis) and cormorants at the three locations.
  • (19) This tick infests nesting colonies of the common tern, roseate tern, sandwich tern, herring gull (northern and Mediterranean races), common cormorant, shag, razorbill, common murre, black-legged kittiwake, and probably other marine birds nesting nearby.
  • (20) Candida albicans was isolated from gulls and Canada geese in Connecticut and from gulls and cormorants in Florida.

Corvorant


Definition:

  • (n.) See Cormorant.

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