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Double-crested cormorant nests at Quiver Lake
Quiver Lake, Mason County, Illinois
This double-crested cormorant colony is in a black willow woodland in the frequently flooded bottomlands of Quiver Lake, a backwater Lake connected to the Illinois River. Prothonotary warblers, red-headed woodpeckers, yellow-billed cuckoos, warbling vireos, tree swallows, and house wrens are numerous in these woods.