47 Great Cormorant

• A group of Great cormorants are called a; Flight / Gulp / Rookery / Sunning / Swim.
• These birds winter along the east coastal waters.
• They are large and very good fishermen.  In Japan and China they have been trained to catch fish.  Kind of like fishing falconry. 
• These birds migrate out of North America in a V or strait line formation.
• These are colonial breeders in groups of 20,000.
• How more Canadian than seeing a Cormorant flying over a Tim Horton's???

•  Canadian search and rescue helicopter.

•  Yikes!