Subject: [Tweeters] cormorant weights
Date: Apr 19 12:58:09 2007
From: cwilsdon at earthlink.net - cwilsdon at earthlink.net


Hello, Tweeters--
I have never weighed a cormorant or compared and contrasted their respective bulks, but thought I'd weigh in anyway with a thought about the comparable weights of Pelagic and Double-crested (in re plausibility "that Pelagic Cormorants (PECO) really are heavier than Double-crested (DCCO)...If the PECO, something of a salt-water specialist, depends on deeper dives than its generalist cousin, it might well have evolved denser bones than the DCCO"). I was just thinking that since things are more buoyant in salt water than in fresh water, it would probably stand to reason that something would need to weigh a bit more to overcome this buoyancy in order to dive? Just a thought.
Don't have any Ogden Nash rhymes for PECOs and DCCOs but I am pleased to report, however, that I saw my first cormorant ever about 25 years ago on a trip to Ireland. I was in Connemara. In the town of Cornamona. Which means I saw a cormorant in Cornamona, Connemara. Fun to say.
Christina
cwilsdon at earthlink net