This bird, native to Europe, Africa, and Asia is famous for both its spectacular crest and its long, very sharp, slender beak ...

Foraging birds are commonly seen on the ground with the tail cocked. Adult male: the glossy black body, with a greenish iridescence, contrasts with a brown head. The eyes are dark; the bill and ...

When people see a thin black bird ... beak, while the cormorant’s beak is thicker and more rounded. Cormorants also have shorter tails, and lack silvery wing patches. A male anhinga has dark ...

But there is a dark presence also of the "unkindness of ravens", from Norse gods to Edgar Allan Poe, of a bird black as night with powerful beak and deep croaking calls as it soars over its hill ...