What is "cormorants"

Usage examples of "cormorants".

And flying in groups and pairs, without formation, came swooping the strange ellipsoid black forms of cormorants, twenty or thirty of them, more than Will had ever seen flying together.

Bird Rock, Craig yr Aderyn, is the only place in the world where cormorants are known to gather and build their nests inland, because in the land of the Grey King the coast has no rocky cliffs for such building, but only sand and beaches and dunes.

And then, all at once, the fish vanished, the surface of the lake was suddenly smooth as dark glass, and all the cormorants swept upwards in a cloud and curved away, shrieking, disappearing back up the long broad valley to Bird Rock.

New World, he uttered a loud cry, which so frightened the innumerable cormorants and pelicans that are always perched upon these movable quays, that they flew noisily away.

Squinting against the cold gale blowing in his face, the cardsmith recognized sooty seagulls, wide-winged albatrosses, tiny black-masked terns, long-necked cormorants, fat pelicans: birds built for gliding great distances, that could cross vast oceans without weakening and dying.