Lake Ontario Cormorants Birds in forums


Help Ontario's cormorants Animal Alliance of Canada

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.


Murfs Wildlife Great Cormorant

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.


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.


Ontario government opens 'fall harvest' on cormorant — Lindsay Advocate

Ontario's Newest Game Bird: Should We Be Hunting Cormorants? — Subarctic Angling On July 30th, 2020, the Ontario government passed into law a new hunting season for a species that has long been seen as a nuisance to…


Cormorant Lewisboro Field Guide

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.


Pictures and information on Doublecrested Cormorant

A double-crested cormorant surfaces after catching dinner. The Ontario ministry of natural resources and forestry announced a 'fall harvest' of cormorants this year. A hunter with a small game.


Doublecrested Cormorant in Burlington, Ontario. Birds of Ontario

STATEMENT: Bird Studies Canada (BSC) expresses its deep concern regarding the proposal to establish a hunting season for the Double-crested Cormorant in Ontario through amendment to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act and supporting regulations. As a science-based conservation organization, with decades of experience monitoring bird.


DoubleCrested Cormorant Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters

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.


Great Cormorant by R Thew BirdGuides

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.


Lake Ontario cormorants gobble round gobies, fewer sport fish, study

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


Those Incredible Cormorants Bird Canada

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.


What to do with cormorants? Ontario says shoot them Cottage Life

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.


Lake Ontario Cormorants Birds in forums

Ontario's government has passed a new hunting regulation that will allow hunters who hold small game permits - that's approximately 197,000 hunters - to kill up to 15 cormorants a day. The new hunting season will run from September 15 to December 31 - a total of 111 days.


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

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.


Ontario's Newest Game Bird Should We Be Hunting Cormorants

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.