Save a fish,shoot a cormorant! Great opportunity to sharpen the wing shooting skills and control an invasive species. Just wondering if any of our community participated in the fairly new shooting opportunity?View attachment 630342View attachment 630348
Hunting Cormorants. Great wingshooting opportunity. Target rich enviroment. SAFSAC
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Cormorants are not considered an invasive species. Ontario's oldest record of Cormorants comes from 1798 at Lake of the Woods, though it is probable that Cormorants were in Ontario before that first official ornithological record.
Currently Double-crested Cormorants are provincially managed and not protected under Canada’s Migratory Bird Convention Act even though the same birds are protected federally under the U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
https://ontarionature.org/ontarios-cormorants-blog/
Let us know how they taste! I think I know already...
Currently Double-crested Cormorants are provincially managed and not protected under Canada’s Migratory Bird Convention Act even though the same birds are protected federally under the U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
https://ontarionature.org/ontarios-cormorants-blog/
Let us know how they taste! I think I know already...
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Not sure about 1798, as I wasnt present. Lived along the St Lawrence seaway all of my 60 years and dont remember seeing them until the late nineties and the population has exploded. Did you ever kill a mouse or rat? Howd that taste. I DONT WANNA KNOW. Buy a property downwind of them and Im sure your opinion will change. Three hundred year old oak tree, dead in two months and a beautifull island turned into a white SH_T covered chunk of granite. The post is for those that are interested or participated in eliminating a nuisance species.
350 and counting but getting cold and theyre bugging out. Not seeing many lately but theyll be back in the late spring eating 3-5 pounds of fish a day. They are eating early year classes of muskies like a fat kid on smarties. Very hard on the game fish of the St.Lawrence as well as the great lakes and the 1000s of inland lakes the last couple of years!
Nice decoys, you guys spent a few hours cutting those I guess.
At least the painting part isn't hard lol.
Did it lure them in easily?
Is this on Lake Erie?
Keep em in check, they even made it to the small lake in the city I live in.
Only a few for now but might explode in a year or two who knows.
At least the painting part isn't hard lol.
Did it lure them in easily?
Is this on Lake Erie?
Keep em in check, they even made it to the small lake in the city I live in.
Only a few for now but might explode in a year or two who knows.
Them and Sea Lions - I'm willing to bet Cormorants smell better than 50 or so Sea Lions. Make less G-D noise too.
Great job looks like it was a successful day. What do you end up doing with them all? I don't really shoot them because I wouldn't eat them, and I honestly don't even know how to properly dispose of such a large amount of birds. There a proper way to dispose of them or just dig a hole?
The only thing stopping a lot of folks from shooting them, is the disposal requirement as outlined in the regulations…
I am sure without some requirement for proper disposal, it could become an embarrassing gong show of cormorant corpses littering the landscape.
I am sure without some requirement for proper disposal, it could become an embarrassing gong show of cormorant corpses littering the landscape.
X2 Great post No requirement to eat them in Ontario . I shoot the SOB's out of my bass pond on the farm as do some of my friends out of their ponds. Great decoy spread never thought of that approach. Thanks for the post
Let me put my birdwatcher and wind sailing caps on here: Cormorants were highly susceptible to eggshell thinning from DDT and like other predatory birds in North America were nearly extinct by the time it was banned. They sure came roaring back though; at about the point where Lake Ontario flows into the St Lawrence River on the Kingston side of the islands there was this very picturesque little isle, Snake Island, that had several mature hardwood trees creating beauty natural beauty all over the place, summer and winter, that was until the cormorants started nesting in the trees in the mid 1980s and their acidic guano killed every green plant on it and laid the place bare down to the limestone in just a few years.
There are more then one of those islands along the st.Lawrence's 1000 islands chain. I can count at least three of those islands within 30 minutes of me.
