Cormorants are great fishers. I watched this one as it caught a fish and seemed to almost lose it before getting a good hold on it. Couldn't help feeling at this moment that the poor fish was living on the edge, and didn't make it. I have often seen cormorants dive for fish and come up with a catch, then throw the fish into the air and swallow it as it came down. I concluded that cormorants can't turn a fish with their beaks in order to swallow it, like the herons do. So they toss it into the air. The fish always come down head first, the heaviest end, and the cormorant is master at catching and swallowing. It is an interesting process to watch.