Then I could have gone on to explain why it was a duiker no more.

In captivity, the black duiker lives up to 14 years.

The plight of a single duiker was not a priority.

They found the duiker enclosure and stood next to it, barking.

When you found the baby duiker, I let you feed it.

"A duiker ram does not stay in the place where he was weaned."

No natural duiker would be so stupid as to stand so close.

Less than 1,500 Abbott's duiker are estimated to be left in the world, with no captive population.

And they would nod, and look closely, never having seen a duiker - even a common one before.

The preferred prey includes various types of duiker and hogs.

Black duiker are reported to be solitary, territorial animals.

This duiker has a glossy, dark brown coat which is lighter on the underside.

Duiker was a child of the city.

The animals are said to prey upon birds, duiker, and other small game animals.

We stopped to take pictures and accidentally flushed a tiny duiker antelope from cover.

The first animal to appear by the roadside that day was a duiker, a tiny antelope the size of a dog.

'This is a common duiker,' we would tell them.

But we haven't seen a single animal, not even a duiker, since we left the homestead.

It may be a subspecies of the yellow-backed duiker.

They are similar to the suni and the duiker.

Duiker was greatly influenced by the work of Jan Vermeer.

The first thing I struck was a duiker, who dived into the scrub and was lost.

The American gave his duiker a blue dog collar, and a metal name tag, and the run of the garden.

You must drive him on to me, just as you drive the duiker in the net hunt.

Since 1994 a subspecies of great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis, nests there as well.

Many birds are passing vagrants, such as the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).

The isle is inhabited by Phalacrocoracidae (Phalacrocorax carbo).

Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

The Phalacrocorax carbo albino suffers from loss of eyesight and/or hearing, thus it rarely manages to survive in the wild.

Black Shag (Phalacrocorax carbo)

The situation was described in a recent study from 1996, entitled Cormorants, Phalacrocorax carbo, a first step towards a European management plan .

The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere.

A black-necked form originally classified as Phalacrocorax patricki or Phalacrocorax carbo patricki is now regarded as synonymous with Phalacrocorax lucidus.

Authors unknown (1974) The status of the cormorants, Phalacrocorax carbo lucidus and Phalacrocorax carbo patricki.

The college crest features a cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), a symbol of all three armed services; Britain's largest seabird flies, swims on the sea surface and catches its fish underwater, yet builds its nest on dry land (either on cliffs or in riverside trees).

If the generic and specific name have already been mentioned in the same paragraph, they are often abbreviated to initial letters: for example one might write, "The Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo has a distinct subspecies in Australasia, the Black Shag P. c. novaehollandiae".

The names "cormorant" and "shag" were originally the common names of the two species of the family found in Great Britain, Phalacrocorax carbo (now referred to by ornithologists as the Great Cormorant) and P. aristotelis (the European Shag).

I pointed out that a proposal would be presented to the committee concerned to remove the sub-species Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis from the Directive. I also stated in my answer that we would be urging Member States to cooperate on controlling populations of this sub-species.

The park's diverse aquatic avifauna includes Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala, White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster, Grey Pelican Pelecanus philippensis, Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo , and Little Cormorant P. niger.

Recently great cormorants have spread to the archipelago and their numbers are increasing.

Many fishermen see in the Great Cormorant a competitor for fish.

Most birds cannot move their eyes, although there are exceptions, such as the Great Cormorant.

The great cormorant, spot-billed duck, and osprey are common throughout the year.

Their experimental subjects were great cormorants, from a colony that winters on the west coast of Greenland.

It feeds in the sea, and, unlike the Great Cormorant, is rare inland.

Great Cormorants are mostly silent, but they make various guttural noises at their breeding colonies.

A very rare variation of the Great Cormorant is caused by albinism.

The Great Cormorant can dive to considerable depths, but often feeds in shallow water.

A detailed study of the Great Cormorant concludes that it is without doubt to dry the plumage.

Great cormorants have been assumed to be visual feeders, as earlier experiments showed that their ability to find food was hampered in cloudy water.

In fact, the researchers suggest, in these conditions great cormorants may use acoustic or tactile cues, rather than visual ones, to find fish.

Chinese fishermen often employ great cormorants.

In other respects it is a large cormorant generally resembling the Great Cormorant.

It is distinguished from other forms of the great cormorant by its white breast and by the fact that subpopulations are freshwater birds.

The tops of these walls are used by great cormorants and great egret as standing, resting and sleeping areas.

"Shag" refers to the bird's crest, which the British forms of the Great Cormorant lack.

The toll includes great cormorants, great crested grebes, herring gulls and assorted others.

Many birds are passing vagrants, such as the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).

In the 1950s, the colonies of herons and great cormorant disappeared in the Palace, as a result of deteriorating living conditions.

The Great Cormorant is a large black bird, but there is a wide variation in size in the species wide range.

Also seen here are cattle egrets, great cormorants, darters, purple swamphen, and bronze-winged Jacanas.

In summers common visitors include Osprey, Grey Heron, Great Cormorant.

The European Shag's tail has 12 feathers, the Great Cormorant's 14 feathers.

The arms show a Great Black Cormorant on a gold background.

The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere.

There are also razorbills and guillemots, which look like miniature penguins; great black cormorants and their smaller cousins the shags; the mocking gulls, the suspicious gannets, the insouciant terns.

Many birds are passing vagrants, such as the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).

The Phalacrocorax carbo albino suffers from loss of eyesight and/or hearing, thus it rarely manages to survive in the wild.

The isle is inhabited by Phalacrocoracidae (Phalacrocorax carbo).

The situation was described in a recent study from 1996, entitled Cormorants, Phalacrocorax carbo, a first step towards a European management plan .

Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Black Shag (Phalacrocorax carbo)

The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere.

A black-necked form originally classified as Phalacrocorax patricki or Phalacrocorax carbo patricki is now regarded as synonymous with Phalacrocorax lucidus.

The college crest features a cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), a symbol of all three armed services; Britain's largest seabird flies, swims on the sea surface and catches its fish underwater, yet builds its nest on dry land (either on cliffs or in riverside trees).

The park's diverse aquatic avifauna includes Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala, White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster, Grey Pelican Pelecanus philippensis, Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo , and Little Cormorant P. niger.

If the generic and specific name have already been mentioned in the same paragraph, they are often abbreviated to initial letters: for example one might write, "The Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo has a distinct subspecies in Australasia, the Black Shag P. c. novaehollandiae".

The names "cormorant" and "shag" were originally the common names of the two species of the family found in Great Britain, Phalacrocorax carbo (now referred to by ornithologists as the Great Cormorant) and P. aristotelis (the European Shag).

Birds of the delta are both winter visitors and passage migrants including Phalacrocorax carbo, a wide variety of Anatidae, Fulica atra, about 30 species of migratory shorebirds, Chlidonias hybrida, Hydroprogne caspia, and the Brown-headed Gull (Larus brunnicephalus), which is very common.