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The Devil’s Cormorant King - Devil's Cormorant.indb 1 7/1/2013 11:31:17 AM University of new HampsHire press DUrHam, new HampsHire King - Devil's Cormorant.indb 2 7/1/2013 11:31:17 AM [3.143.168.172] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 23:21 GMT) TheDevil’s Cormorant A Natural History RichaRd J. King King - Devil's Cormorant.indb 3 7/1/2013 11:31:17 AM University of New Hampshire Press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com© 2013 Richard J. King All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Eric M. Brooks Typeset in Adobe Jenson, Calluna Sans, and Magesta Script by Passumpsic Publishing University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data King, Richard J. The devil’s cormorant: a natural history / Richard J. King. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-61168-225-0 (cloth : alkaline paper)— isbn 978-1-61168-474-2 (ebook) 1. Cormorants. 2. Cormorants—History. I. Title. ql696.p4745k56 2013 598.4'3—dc23  2013009645 5 4 3 2 1 King - Devil's Cormorant.indb 4 7/1/2013 11:31:17 AM [3.143.168.172] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 23:21 GMT) For my parents s King - Devil's Cormorant.indb 5 7/1/2013 11:31:17 AM King - Devil's Cormorant.indb 6 7/1/2013 11:31:18 AM [3.143.168.172] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 23:21 GMT) “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” harper lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960 Several men were shooting at black cormorants; and it developed that everyone in Cape San Lucas hates cormorants. They are the flies in a perfect ecological ointment. . . . They dive and catch fish, but also they drive the schools away from the pier out of easy reach of the baitmen. They are considered interlopers, radicals, subversive forces against the perfect and God-set balance on Cape San Lucas. And they are rightly slaughtered, as all radicals should be. john steinbeck & ed ricketts, Sea of Cortez, 1941 King - Devil's Cormorant.indb 7 7/1/2013 11:31:18 AM King - Devil's Cormorant.indb 8 7/1/2013 11:31:18 AM ...

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