Seriously!? That’s what I also Have read. Seems like researchers make a lot of assumptions. I’ve also never seen them even hover for that matter. I guess it would make sense that they would have similar capabilities, seeing as how they live in similar habitats and both hunt fish.
I once saw an eagle take a cormorant in full flight, a few feet off the water. It was over in less than a second, no struggle. In a fresh water lake like this, presumably the eagle could see the cormorant swimming so could time his attack. Normally in the ocean, diving ducks like the cormorant have an easy escape, compared to dabbling ducks that must take to the air quickly.
Comorant was on the menu and that eagle wasn't to give up on dinner, not sure if the eagle would have the power to lift it out of the water, and first time I have seen a eagle hover like a North Harrier!
Birds are notoriously light for their size. I just came from a video where an Eagle flies off with an adult Canadian goose - just larger than a cormorant!
I'm shocked the cormorants are still around once the snow flies. Our Eagles tend to head south a little late, but the cormorants are gone much earlier.
@@123TauruZ321 😅😂🤣. No, not penguins at all because of course penguins don't fly. More like several other birds that do dive for fish under the general term of Sea birds, which includes such birds as gannets, murres, terns and other bird groups as well
