go-bassn wrote:
& one more color than the common cormorant...

Like I said, cormorants with colorS...

Warren

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"alwaysfishking" wrote in message
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"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message All the loons I've ever seen have
been resplendent

in black and white.


Black and White are colors.

Ah! A scientist! Oh goody.

Wolfgang
well, what the hell......we ain't had a good bunch of crossposted loons in
quite a while. this could be fun.





Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
Identification Tips:

* Length: 27 inches Wingspan: 50 inches
* Sexes similar
* Large, dark waterbird with a long, hooked bill and
long tail
* Long, thin neck
* Gular area squared off and orange, extending straight
down across throat
* Orange lores
* Often perches with wings spread to dry them

Adult:

* Entirely black plumage
* Small white plumes on head during breeding season

Immatu

* Pale throat and chest darkening below to dark belly;
some individuals are entirely pale underneath
* Brownish back and upperwings

Similar species:

Loons are similar on the water, but lack hooked bills.
Anhinga has a long, pointed bill and a much longer tail. All
adult cormorant species in the U.S. are separable by the
shape and color of the gular areas. No other species has
orange lores and gular region that does not form a point at
the gape. Neotropical Cormorant can be similar but is
slimmer and longer-tailed, and has a differently shaped
gular area. Great Cormorant is also similar but has a
yellowish, pointed gular area surrounded with white as an
adult. Immatures are dark-chested and pale bellied, unlike
Double-crested.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim,
H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western
Publishing Company, Inc.