00:00We're heading out on Lake St. Clair to check out a problem caused by an endangered bird.
00:04Some say it's a conservation success story.
00:06Others, like state rep Alicia St. Germain here, says it's time for the feds to send help.
00:11And it wasn't long before we started noticing them, the double-crested cormorant.
00:15And then there were hundreds of them nesting in trees, killed by the bird's acidic poop.
00:20This place for them, there's just not a place for all of them.
00:24It's disgusting. It's just, they killed this whole area.
00:27In the 1970s, they were almost wiped out by DDT, the agricultural chemical.
00:32Now they're back with a vengeance, migrating here to the Great Lakes every spring,
00:37breeding, taking over and decimating the territory.
00:40Nothing else can survive here. Turtles, frogs, ducks, nothing nests here.
00:46U.S. Congressman Tim Wahlberg of Michigan has introduced legislation
00:49that will allow the state to control the ever-increasing population.
00:53So as anglers try to catch a fish or two, get this, the cormorants eat over a pound of bat
00:59and perch every day.
01:00And considering some cormorant colonies have 10,000 birds, that's about five tons of fish a day.
01:07Tim Pamplin, WWJ Newsradio 950.
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