Media Reports

• Michigan Looks to Double the Cormorant Kill (Interlochen Public Radio, June 2010)

• Lake Champlain cormorants decline (Burlington Free Press, June 2010)

• The gothic world of the much-mailgned cormorant (Irish Times, November 2009)

• National Resources Ministry wants to return to cormorant reduction at Presqu'ile Provincial Park (Mix 97 News, November 2009)

• Cormorants Continue to Get a Bad Rap (Surfbirds, June 2009)

• Cost of the Cull (Windsor Star, May 2009)

• Cormorant Cull Cost Draws Fire (Windsor Star, May 2009)

• To Kill A Cormorant, Are double-crested cormorants overrunning their niche - or simply recovering from centuries of suppression? (Natural History, March 2009)

• The Enemy is Us (RoxReview.com, February 25, 2009)

• Controversy over cormorant cull about to re-ignite (Community Press, December 16, 2008)

• Most-hated bird in the world: Sanctioned killing of cormorants continues unabated in Minnesota (Minnpost.com, July 17 2008)

• Bird cull not in the cards for Leslie Spit, Conservation authority will encourage human activity in the area to keep shy cormorants at bay (Globe & Mail, May 24, 2008)

• Public say on bird cull "a joke" (Windsor Star, April 7, 2008)

• Judge delays cormorant cull (Windsor Star, April 2, 2008)

• Cormorant nests dwindle on Huron due to natural ebb and vigilante culls, MNR survey shows nine colonies "shot up" on Georgian Bay, N. Channel (Manitoulin Expositor, March 19, 2008)

• Feds could face charges if cormorant cull inhumane (Windsor Star, March 10, 2008)

• Cormorant kill proposed (Windsor Star, March 8, 2008)

• Bird species that bounced back may face a cull (Globe & Mail , September 30, 2007)

• New Threat To Cormorants, Parks Canada To Target Middle Island Colony (September 4, 2007)

• Cormorant cull called bad science (CBC News , May 22, 2007)

• Killing one species to save another just isn't right (C Nanaimo News Bulletin , December 8, 2006)

• Bill 156 would legalize cormorant slaughter - A CDI Alert (November 2, 2006)

• Sorry and Costly Affair (The Independent, June 7, 2006)

• Annual cormorant cull in Ontario park cruel and brutal, environmentalists say (Canadian Press, May 29, 2006)

• Images from the 2006 Presqu'ile Provincial Park Cormorant Cull (May 2006) - unretrieved injured birds

• Bloody Carnage in Provincial Park, Staggering cruelty documented at government bird slaughter (May 29, 2006)

• Ontario Government Squashes Constitutional Rights of Citizens Concerned About Cormorant Slaughter (May 12, 2006)

• Plan to Kill Cormorants Put On Hold: Animal rights activists convince GRCA to call off Luther Marsh cull (Hamilton Spectator, April 29, 2006)

• Don't Blame Cormorants For Walleye Decline: researcher (Edmonton Journal, March 21, 2006)

• Cormorants Aren't Eating the Sport Fish: researchers (Hamilton Spectator, March 21, 2006)

• Lak Huron cormorant monitoring continues: 120 birds harvested for diet study (Manitoulin Expositor, September 14, 2005)

• Minister ends controversial cormorant cull at Presqu'ile Provincial Park (June 6, 2005)

• IN THE LINE OF FIRE, What drives those who insist on endangering their own safety for the lives of Cormorants?  (The Independent, June 1, 2005) [PDF file.]

• Government takes aim at cormorants: Ministry showing a crazy kind of George W. Bush logic (The Toronto Star, May 28, 2005)

• Animal protection groups fight for right to bear witness to the killing of thousands of cormorants in provincial park (May 5, 2005)

Major Threats to the Fisheries and Birds

• Botulism Takes Fatal Toll on Thousands of Birds (Chicago Tribune, January 15, 2008)

• Chain Reaction Killing Loons in Great Lakes (National Post, December 29, 2007)

• Type E Botulism outbreak kills birds (News Review, November 23, 2007)

• Americans Confront Fisheries Threat (Kingston Whig Standard, December 27, 2006)

• Bioinvasion: Foreign Waters (National Geographic Today, January 24, 2001)