Help Ontario's cormorants Animal Alliance of Canada
Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large birds, with body weight in the range of 0.35-5 kilograms (0.77-11.02 lb) and wing span of 60-100 centimetres (24-39 in). The majority of species have dark feathers. The bill is long, thin and hooked. Their feet have webbing between all four toes.
Ontario announces annual doublecrested cormorant fall hunting season
In July 2020, Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry announced the controversial hunt, allowing hunters with an outdoors card and small game licence to kill up to 15 birds a day from.
DoubleCrested Cormorant Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters
Cormorant hunt lacks scientific basis, 51 experts say in open letter to Ontario minister. The group has already managed to get some concessions from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.
Great Cormorant by R Thew BirdGuides
The cormorant is a striking, dark bird that perches on rocks and cliffs. They live in large colonies across the continent. They're seen negatively by many of their human neighbours, but some.
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Ontario's Newest Game Bird Should We Be Hunting Cormorants
In Ontario, it's open season on cormorants. But is the hunt based on science? By Emma McIntosh | News, Politics | August 13th 2020 Many people don't like double-crested cormorants, but scientists and advocates say the birds have been unfairly maligned. Photo courtesy Gail Fraser Climate journalism is urgent.
Great Cormorant by R Thew BirdGuides
History Fact Sheet Double-crested Cormorants in Ontario History Double-crested Cormorants are not new to Ontario; they are known to have been a resident of Lake of the Woods since 1798. The earliest nesting record for cormorants in Ontario is from Black Bay in Lake Superior in 1920.
Doublecrested Cormorant Bird Photography Ornithology
The cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae) is a family of predominantly black birds with hooked, laterally compressed bills, naked, coloured skin on the throat and noticeably stiff tail feathers. Highly adapted to an aquatic environment (eg, all toes are connected by a web), cormorants are awkward on land.
Cormorant Hunt Proposed in Ontario Door County Pulse
Ontario's new cormorant hunt is welcome news to anglers, hunters, and recreational boaters, as well as shoreline property owners. But for the hunt to have any real impact on mitigating the ecological mess caused by high concentrations of these fish-devouring birds, there needs to be buy-in from hunters.
What to do with cormorants? Ontario says shoot them Cottage Life
The double-crested cormorant is a native bird to Ontario. Cormorants were almost wiped out by the insecticide DDT in the 1950s and '60s. Their historic comeback in Ontario has led many to.
Cormorant Lewisboro Field Guide
The daily bag limit is 15 birds under the authority of your small game licence. See the MNRF's decision notice for full details, at www.ero.ontario.ca/notice/013-4124
Lake Ontario cormorants gobble round gobies, fewer sport fish, study
On Sept. 15, Ontario allowed a hunt of the large fish-eating birds, after the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry concluded the cormorants were harming fish stocks and damaging natural.
Doublecrested Cormorant in Burlington, Ontario. Birds of Ontario
A Facebook page dedicated to Ontario cormorant hunters, shows some are concerned about mistaking these birds for other species. (Ontario Cormorant Hunters/Facebook) Hobson is urging the OFAH to change course, and request that the provincial government end the cull. On its website, the OFAH describes itself as an organization with a "passion.
Lake Ontario Cormorants Birds in forums
In Ontario, the double-crested cormorant, perhaps more than any other animal species, is under siege due to the political whim of the current government, using shoddy science to justify the mass hunting of these birds. A skilled fisherman, the cormorant is branded as a threat to commercial fish stocks. As a colonial waterbird — meaning they.
Proposal to establish a hunting season for doublecrested cormorants in
1. The government's approach is not science-based. There is no population management objective or target. There is no requirement for hunters to report what they've killed. There are no measures in place to control how many cormorants will ultimately be killed locally or regionally. Double-crested cormorant with goldfish © Joe CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 2.
Doublecrested Cormorant Humber Bay Park (Toronto, Canada) 2005
Cormorants have been vilified for centuries. A European settler in 1634 objected that cormorants "destroy abundance of small fish." Consider the numbers: If a thousand small game hunters achieved the daily bag limit of 15 birds per day for 10 days, this would eliminate the entire breeding population of cormorants in Ontario.
Ontario government opens 'fall harvest' on cormorant — Lindsay Advocate
The Ontario ministry announced the hunt on July 31, calling it a "fall harvest," and said it will allow a hunter with an outdoors card and small game licence to kill up to 15 birds a day from Sept.