We are all familiar with the expression "like water off a duck's back." Many birds do indeed possess a coat of feathers that is repellent to rain and water immersion, but others need to dry out after ...

They are two of Florida's most iconic waterbirds, who look and behave similarly, but it turns out the anhinga and the double-crested cormorant are quite different, new research from the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We are blessed here in Northeast Florida with an abundance of wildlife associated with the St. Johns River, and they are not all ...

When people see a thin black bird on the water or drying its wings on a tree branch, many can’t tell whether it is an anhinga or a cormorant. One of the easiest ways to see the difference is in the ...

An anhinga has taken a liking to our lake. It arrives in the morning and spends the day either in the water fishing or perched nearby drying its wings. Anhingas differ from most water birds in that ...

On a recent trip to Florida I saw a cormorant that had a fish stuck on its beak. The fish was speared clean through the middle and the bird couldn't seem to get it off no matter what it did. Please ...

On a recent trip to Florida I saw a cormorant that had a fish stuck on its beak. The fish was speared clean through the middle and the bird couldn't seem to get it off no matter what it did. Please ...

Anhingas, water birds with snakelike necks, have turned up in Prospect Park in Brooklyn and far upstate, a sign of shifting ranges for birds from the South. By James Crugnale For two weeks, a strange ...

A fundamental belief of a wildlife-loving naturalist asserts that you cannot find what you don’t look for. Another way of expressing this belief is if you want to engage Nature you need to get away ...

Birdwatchers in Brooklyn, N.Y., were understandably excited to see an odd, ugly bird called an anhinga at their local Paradise Pond recently; it was far from its home in southern coastal regions, such ...