
Double-crested Cormorant Images, Facts and Information:
Phalacrocorax auritus
- Double-crested Cormorants are large, dark waterbirds with webbed feet, long necks, small heads, long, hooked bills and bright green to aquamarine colored eyes. When they are in breeding plumage they have two straggly crests on their heads which can be black, white or a combination of black and white.
- Double-crested Cormorants are migratory in almost all of their range except the deep south. There are exceptions though as I have seen them in Utah pretty much year round.
- Double-crested Cormorants are found throughout much of north America including some areas of Canada and Alaska and into Mexico. Double-crested Cormorants can be found in both saltwater and freshwater environments where there are enough fish to sustain them.
- The diet of Double-crested Cormorants is primarily fish based but they will also consume amphibians and crustaceans. They dive to forage for food.
- Double-crested Cormorants will lay 1 to 7 eggs which hatch in 28 to 30 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous, colonial nesters.
- A group of Double-crested Cormorants can be called a “rookery”, “flight”, “gulp” or “swim” of cormorants.
- Double-crested Cormorants can live to more than 22 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Double-crested Cormorant photos.
Double-crested Cormorant and American Coot in snow
Title: Double-crested Cormorant and American Coot in snow
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/23/2017
Double-crested Cormorant after surfacing from a dive
Title: Double-crested Cormorant after surfacing from a dive
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/12/2016
Double-crested Cormorant splashing after eating
Title: Double-crested Cormorant splashing after eating
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/12/2016
Double-crested Cormorant about to swallow a fish
Title: Double-crested Cormorant about to swallow a fish
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/12/2016
Double-crested Cormorant with its catch
Title: Double-crested Cormorant with its catch
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/12/2016
Double-crested Cormorant swimming close up
Title: Double-crested Cormorant swimming close up
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/12/2016
Double-crested Cormorant with a large fish
Title: Double-crested Cormorant with a large fish
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/12/2016
Double-crested Cormorant preening on a stump
Title: Double-crested Cormorant preening on a stump
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/16/2016
Double-crested Cormorant resting on a stump
Title: Double-crested Cormorant resting on a stump
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/16/2016
Double-crested Cormorant on a stump
Title: Double-crested Cormorant on a stump
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/16/2016
Double-crested Cormorant on a stump in the marsh
Title: Double-crested Cormorant on a stump in the marsh
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 6/16/2016
Double-crested Cormorant and Phragmites Reflections
Title: Double-crested Cormorant and Phragmites Reflections
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/9/2015
Double-crested Cormorant drying out
Title: Double-crested Cormorant drying out
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/16/2014
Double-crested Cormorant in flight over Willow Pond
Title: Double-crested Cormorant in flight over Willow Pond
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2011
Double-crested Cormorant in Salt Lake County
Title: Double-crested Cormorant in Salt Lake County
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/13/2010
Dramatic Double-Crested Cormorant
Title: Dramatic Double-Crested Cormorant
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/12/2010
Cormorant flapping wings
Title: Cormorant flapping wings
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/12/2010
Preening Double-crested Cormorant
Title: Preening Double-crested Cormorant
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/12/2010
Adult Double-crested Cormorant
Title: Adult Double-crested Cormorant
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/12/2010
Double-crested Cormorant vertical pano
Title: Double-crested Cormorant vertical pano
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/12/2010