Sri Lanka cormorants (1 Viewer)

rylirk

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• Jun 3, 2018

• #1

Only 3 birds left to check on my quest to make my bird-list IOC compliant! Here's 2 of them:

I currently have the first listed as Indian Cormorant and the second as Little Cormorant. I may have follow-up questions if one or the other is mis-ID'd, as there were maaaany cormorants in Sri Lanka and I want to know if I saw both

Both taken between Kandy and Sigiriya, February 2017

 

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Valéry Schollaert

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• Jun 3, 2018

• #2

Both are Little C, left is immature.

 

rylirk

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• Jun 3, 2018

• #3

I see... off to hunt for more cormorant pics then!

 

rylirk

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• Jun 3, 2018

• #4

Nevermind, all seem to be Little as well. Another one off the list, then but I'd rather it was accurate than long

 

Valéry Schollaert

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• Jun 3, 2018

• #5

At least in South Western Sri Lanka around Tissamaharama 8and the national parks nearby there), both are very common. If you were near the huge trees were roost thousands of Fruit Bats, there are several nests of Oriental Darters, Little and Indian Cormorants

 

rylirk

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• Jun 3, 2018

• #6

Spent most of my time in the north/central region: we did go down to Galle for a couple days at the end, but no cormorants down that way.

There was a big colony of fruit bats in the Kandy botanical gardens though, so I've revisited some pics of there. Found what seems to be a cormorant with white tufts? Little cormorant doesn't seem to get these, so could this be Indian cormorant? I think the bird on the right is Little Cormorant.

 

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Mark Andrews

• Jun 4, 2018

• #7

The last pic, that's a breeding plumaged Indian Cormorant on the left.