Book ID: CBB001422364

The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History (2013)

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King, Richard J. (Author)


University of New Hampshire


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 360 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The Devil's Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the world's most misunderstood waterfowl.

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Authors & Contributors
Pietsch, Theodore W.
Mynott, Jeremy
Yuko Takigawa
Petraglia, Michael
Zumbrägel, Christian
Christopher Abram
Concepts
Birds
Fishes
Animal migration
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Natural history
Human-animal relationships
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
17th century
21st century
20th century, early
Ancient
Places
Americas
United States
France
Scotland
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
Russia
Institutions
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
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