Cormorants with their tall black slender bodies, upright posture, and powerful hooked bills, are members of the Phalacrocoracidae Clan, and live on the ocean shores of the Pacific Northwest. They can often be seen on offshore rocks or pilings drying their outstretched wings. Fishing cooperatively, these diving birds often go underwater together as a team to form a living "food fishing" net. In this depiction, a naked nestling is shown within the Cormorant's wing. In the cormorant's stream-like gullet the fish diet is revealed and also symbolizes the life cycle of a spawning fish. The Cormorant crest belongs to the Haida Eagle Clan. Haida stories relate that the crest's significance came from Stone-Ribs, son of Djila'gons, who could fly when cloaked in its skin.