The double-crested cormorant: plight of a feathered pariah

Part I. What are cormorants? Aristotle's raven : an introduction to cormorants

The double-crested cormorant

Part II. The populations and the perceptions, then and now. European colonization and the making of a pariah

From Audubon to conservation : the first wave of recovery

Reversal of fortunes : another decline and the second recovery

Part III. The economic and political landscape of the cormorant, 1965 to the present. Fish ponds and reservoirs : the context for conflict on the wintering grounds

Animal damage control and the first standing depredation order for cormorants

Conflicts on the breeding grounds

The second standing depredation order for cormorants

A half million and counting : implementation of management policies in the United States

Looking north to Canada : limitations to management beyond the 49th parallel

Part IV. The science, management, and ethics of today : review and critique. Untangling the mysteries between predator and prey

Adaptive management : a process gone awry

Back to the wintering grounds : liberties with science and policy

Engineer or destroyer : the case of the catastrophic ecosystem flip

Opening Pandora's box : some ethical implications of cormorant management

Afterword : what future for cormorants?