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pinkpigeon

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Seens as there has been so much intersting talk of cormorants of late I thought I'd post these two pics I took last summer. This bird had a white front right down to the belly. Thoughts please.

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No they aren´t (Double crested is only north american, not european),
this is a Common Cormorant (Phalocrocorax carbo); a young bird, amount of white on young cormorants is variable
 
gthang said:
Double-Crested Cormorant... That is, if they're in your area...
Not a bad try, considering we don't know where the pic was taken - it could just as easily have been taken on a trip to the US as anywhere.

But it isn't a D-C Cormorant, as they have a slenderer bill, which is more all-yellow in juveniles, not yellow base and grey outer part. And also, this bird has its tail spread well enough to count the feathers: 14 tail feathers, which is right for Great Cormorant, but wrong for D-C Cormorant (12).

Michael
 
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