Cormorant on the Arno
Ponte di Santa Trinita
Florence, December 2022
“Outside the breeding season, it frequents a wide range of wetlands as long as they are rich in fish and the water level is not too low. Their basic diet consists of various species of fish they catch during the day by diving up to 10 metres deep. Until about ten years ago, Cormorants could sometimes be observed in inland Tuscany. Today the species regularly over-winters along the River Arno Basin and over a hundred individuals daily use the Fucecchio Marshes Nature Reserve as their feeding ground. Over the last few years, the species has begun to nest again in Peninsular Italy and since 2009 has been breeding at Fucecchio Marshes.” (Cormorant, Zone Umide Toscane)
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