Ignored own study in pushing cormorant massacre PORTLAND, Oregon––Obtaining U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service research showing that killing cormorants near the mouth of the Columbia River would have no beneficial outcome for salmon and steelhead, the Audubon Society of Portland, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of Animals, Animal Legal Defense Fund and Wildlife Center […]
The Double-Crested Cormorant: Plight of a Feathered Pariah
by Linda R. Wires, with original illustrations by Barry Kent MacKay Yale University Press (P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520), 2014. 368 pages, illustrated. $30.00 hardcover. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The ANIMALS 24-7 research files include coverage of sixty-odd public controversies involving cormorants during the past decade. Each began in more-or-less the same manner, […]