Cape Cormorants can be found between Namibia and Algoa Bay, South Africa. The species is colonial and breeding can occur whenever sufficient food is available.At Lambert’s Bay, nests are built on fishing boats in the harbour and on any elevated site, including the stacked dolosse and rocky outcrops. The nest is a bowl built of sticks, seaweed and guano, in which between three and five eggs are laid.The eggs are incubated for approximately 23 days. Both adults incubate the egg. Chicks can fly at nine weeks.
The Newquay Cormorants Swimming Club is a friendly and competitive swimming club whose aim is to provide regular training for swimmers wishing to compete at local, national and international levels. We also provide training for swimmers who do not wish to compete.
The migration of cormorants takes place in October and November and then again in March and early April. However in recent years a growing number have taken to wintering in the Czech Republic. This year there are an estimated 8,000 of them predominantly in the eastern part of the country and fishermen claim that these protected birds are depleting their fish stocks and causing losses worth millions of crowns. Here’s how one fisherman puts the problem:
“The cormorants not only catch a vast amount of fish but they injure others in the process and an injured fish - even if it manages to escape - is almost certain to die in the winter months. Those that survive the winter, generally succumb to disease in the spring.”
The popular perception of cormorants is of a rapidly increasing species facing increasing conflict with inland fisheries. However, the evidence for recent increases in cormorant numbers throughout Europe largely originates from censuses of breeding colonies, and comparatively little is known about winter abundance and distribution.
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