Cormorants have baby-blue eyes and sparse feathering that shows in flight. In Japan, fishermen practice ukai: they tie a rope around a cormorant's neck so it can't swallow large fish, then the bird retrieves them in exchange for a share of the catch.
If you know me, then you know that I love birds. But we've got to talk about cormorants. I mean, seriously, look at this thing. It's got these baby blue eyes, but they're just kind of pointing in a weird way. The inside of their mouths are blue as well. And here's a cormorant in flight. They just seem like they're missing a few feathers. Now again, I want to stress that I do love birds, and in fact I like cormorants. They're really fun to watch, and interestingly, in I believe Japan, they used to use them To fish. Like, people used them to fish by tying a rope around their neck so that the fish couldn't be swallowed all the way, and they would go and catch the fish and bring it back to the fishermen, who would then feed them part of what they caught. So, um, I don't know, it— maybe that's not that cool of a thing to do, but I thought it was a cool story. So see you next time. Thanks.
