Physical Characteristics
The length of the Double Crested Cormorant
What is 29-35 inches?
Major part of the Double Crested Cormorant that attracts their mate
What is a crest?
True or False. Double crested cormorants are capable divers generally hunt in shallow waters
True
The color of the egg laid by the female Double Crested Cormorant.
What is pale blue?
Main color(s) of the Adult Double Crested Cormorant
What is Black or Dark Brown?
Name a natural predator of the Double Crested Cormorant
WJhat is the Bald Eagle OR Great Horned Owl?
Double crested cormorants interacts with these elements in the watershed
What is biotic and abiotic?
The length of days Double Crested Cormorant parents incubate the eggs?
What is 25-33 days?
Wingspan of Double Crested Cormorant
What is 4.5 feet?
The natural habitat location of Double Crested Cormorants
What is the Chesapeake Bay watershed?
The months that the Double Crested Cormorant starts nesting
What is April to July?
The number of weeks old when young birds become fully independent
What is 9-10 weeks old?
What the Double Crested Cormorant mainly eats
What is fish?
One nesting location of the Double Crested Cormorant
What is an/the island/cliff edge/on top of dead trees?
The reason the population of the Double Crested Cormorant decline in the mid-20th century?
Due to widespread use of pesticides called DDT
The eye color of an adult Double Crested Cormorant
What is turquoise or emerald green?
TWO qualities that allow double crested cormorants to dive easily and stay submerged longer in water.
What are non-water resistant feathers and dense bones?
Why commercial fishermen from Chesapeake Bay consider Double Crested Cormorants as competitors.
Because bird prey upon the fish population from the Bay that are popular catch for fishermen.
Fill in the Blank. In ground-nesting colonies, young cormorants may leave their individual nests and gather in groups with other juveniles, known as _____ before they are fully independent.
What are creches?
The bright yellow-orange throat pouch of the Double Crested Cormorant.
What is the gular pouch?