the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

The bird thus appears to have originally been intended to be an eagle, but is now officially a cormorant.

By the 17th century, the origins of the bird had begun to be forgotten, with references to the bird as a cormorant, still a common bird in the coastal waters near Liverpool.

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

At the tip of the peninsula on the western side of the lake are the Bird Islands (Cormorant Island and Egg Island), which have been bird sanctuaries of the Qinghai Lake Natural Protection Zone since 1997.

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it their voice shall sing in the windows desolation shall be in the thresholds for he shall uncover the cedar work.