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Everglades National Park, Florida, USA Three cormorants, roosted on a dead mangrove on the Turner River in the Everglades, didn't seem threatened by our passing slowly by in the Carolina Skiff. From a distance, cormorants appear to be fully black-feathered. But, upon a closer look, there is a bit of gray feathering also. Cormorants are diving birds, capable of going as much as 45 meters deep. In the Turner River, that would be a challenge for them, as it is only a few feet deep in the winter dry season. A short distance - as the birds fly - would bring them to deeper waters near the Gulf of Mexico where they could dive for fish.