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Cormorants, Pelicans
Cormorants: Phalacrocoracidae are dark birds with set back legs; long hooked bill and colorful bare facial skin and throat patch. They dive from the surface to fish.
Pelicans: Pelecanidae are large heavy waterbirds with massive bills and huge throat pouches used as dip nets to catch fish.
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Beautiful eye color.
Note the fish hook imbedded behind the lower bill.
Billings Bridge Plaza Park, double-crested cormorant: Phalacrocorax auritus, juvenile: immature
AvesBillings Bridge Plaza ParkBirds of North AmericaCormorants Shags PhalacrocoracidaePelecaniformesPhotography StylesWildlifedoublecrested cormorant Phalacrocorax auritusjuvenile immatureOctober222013
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