In early May, one of my great pleasures was watching violet-green swallows in their fast, circular flights over water (e.g., the river, Kingfisher Pond). They’d just arrived from their wintering ...

Have you ever been so hungry that you don’t even bother to chew? That kind of approach is an everyday thing for cormorants, a family of seabirds that dine exclusively on fish and swallow them whole.