46 Million Raoch Eaten by Cormorants

[gozzer]

Thanks Nick for writing all that stuff. I was lazy and put a link in the other thread, where "Wilo" was avocating a cull. It explained the sub species problem, I guess few people bother to read links.

 

John.

[dapper64]

Is there a difference in the size of the two?,the ones the chinese use to catch fish look considerably smaller than the one that flew past me at close range.

[dapper64]

just looked on wickedpedia,there's dozens of different types of cormorant.

[Worms]

Is there a difference in the size of the two?,the ones the chinese use to catch fish look considerably smaller than the one that flew past me at close range.

The UK sub-species is apparently larger than the European. However the variation is so great it is not really noticeable or, a reliable characteristic. In the past the Uk sub-species was known as the Great Cormorant and the European sub-species the Lesser Great Cormorant!

[weirwulf]

And the mahoosive ones I saw on the banks of the Swan River in Perth Australia are presumably known as the greater great cormorant

[Worms]

And the mahoosive ones I saw on the banks of the Swan River in Perth Australia are presumably known as the greater great cormorant

Funnily enough the largest cormorant in Oz is the same as ours! (sorry had to google that). Are you sure it wasn't a darter/snake bird?

[weirwulf]

My Oz mate said they were King cormorants but it is easy to see from google that birds of that name live in the Falklands. However the ones I saw were huge and very impressive when their wings were stretched out in their normal stance

Edited February 22, 2010 by weirwulf

[Vagabond]

My Oz mate said they were King cormorants but it is easy to see from google that birds of that name live in the Falklands. However the ones I saw were huge

 

Like Texas and Yorkshire, everything becomes much bigger in Australia !

 

There are four species of comorant in oz

 

Black (same as ours - but bigger 'cos it eats Vegemite )

Little black

Pied

Little pied

 

Plus a further species (Black-faced) found in Tas

[Vagabond]

Having just read the article in question, and quickly scanned through the posts on this thread, I seriously worry for the future of this sport..............

 

Very good post. It agrees with many of my thoughts.

 

So much so, that in a reply to the same subject on another forum I cut and pasted chunks of your post in my reply - saved me a lot of typing.

 

I'm sure you won't mind

[Worms]

Very good post. It agrees with many of my thoughts.

With all these culls required by anglers of anything that eats fish I'm feeling very privileged that I'm only going to be criminalised