Efforts to control the Double-crested Cormorant population around Presqu’ile Provincial Park continue.
The Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks estimates there are more than 10,000 adult Cormorants at Presqu’ile during the breeding season.
Ministry spokesperson Gary Wheeler tells Quinte News Cormorant management has been under the Presqu’ile Provincial Park Island Resource Management Implementation Plan since 2011.
He says the plan which includes removal of Cormorant tree nests, placement of scarecrows and disturbance of roosting Cormorants in the spring, has been successful.
There were 6,350 nests at Presqu’ile in 2020 with 58 nests in live trees.
In prior years, the number of tree nests was believed to be in the thousands.
As the number of Cormorant nests in trees has decreased, Wheeler says vegetation conditions have improved and habitats for a diversity of species have been maintained.
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