Examples from literature

• At that moment the cormorants were coming down the glittering lake to their roost. 
• Jungle fowl were abundant and pigeons exceedingly so, but we saw no ducks along the river and only two cormorants. 
• Sea-mews and cormorants flew about him restlessly, as if anxious to warn him of his danger. 
• The cormorants are the best divers, so the pelicans arrange themselves in a large circle at some great distance from the land, and flap their great wings on the surface of the water, while the cormorants dive beneath. 
• To-day, by the way, as I rode along the beach I saw seals, cormorants, gulls and ducks, all astonishingly tame.