Cormorant Republic
A sea-bird sanctuary refuses to fall.
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A sea-bird sanctuary refuses to fall. The editors’ note placed it here on the basis of three criteria: durability across re-reads (or re-watches, or re-plays), influence on the entries that came after it, and the degree to which it could only have been made by the person — or team — who made it.
In the comparative table maintained by the Books desk, Cormorant Republic sits within a band of 5 – 11 that contains some of the most contested swaps of the year. Editors vote with arguments; a swap requires three editors and one written defense.
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The great cormorant, also known as just cormorant in Britain, as black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds in much of the Old World, Australasia, and the Atlantic coast of North America.
