Answer:
Dark, feathery, and popular in Baltimore and fantasy books.
I am black and white with a fishy diet. I cannot fly but I'm an excellent swimmer. What am I?
Face with a tree, skin like the sea. A great beast I am. Yet vermin frightens me.
Tall when seated, short when standing.
A house has 4 walls. All of the walls are facing south, and a bear is circling the house. What color is the bear?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.