Double-crested Cormorant
Nannopterum auritum
Family: Cormorants and shags
Double-crested Cormorant is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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It mainly eats fish and hunts by swimming and diving.
It mainly eats fish, but will sometimes also eat amphibians, crustaceans and insects.
Double-crested cormorants eat other species of fish besides alewives and have been suspected of contributing to the decline of some sport-fish populations in the Great Lakes and other areas.