Double Crested Cormorant? (1 Viewer)

[Riot Media]

I wonder if anyone is able to confirm whether or not the bird I saw yesterday in the Thames Estuary at Allhallows, is a Double Crested Cormorant, as I gather they are an unusual sighting in the UK.

 

[dbradnum]

That's a regular Cormorant - specifically looks like the European sinensis race (which is common in the south-east), based on the shape of the bare skin below the bill.

What made you think it was possibly a Double-crested? They are way rarer than 'unusual' - there has only ever been one in the UK (a wintering bird in Cleveland), since records began!

 

[eddy the eagle]

Not wishing to offend anyone but it amazes me that people jump to the rarest of the rarest instead of looking to the obvious and most likely.Yes we would all like to see the rarest and maybe we will but lets start at the obvious first and eliminate them and then move on....Eddy

 

[Riot Media]

In answer to your question Eddy, I'm a photographer who simply took a series of photos of a bird I considered to be doing something interesting. A friend of mine, who has an interest in ornithology, saw the photos, wondered if it might be a storm driven double crested cormorant, due to the facial markings, however, I can now see the difference.

 

[eddy the eagle]

No offence intended it was meant as an advice and nothing more.....Eddy