Sunday, 24 February 2008

Cormorants

An interesting visit to Herrington Country Park today. I looked hard at these three cormorants and thought maybe #1 was a sinensis. Then I looked at the photos and they all seem to have pretty perpendicular gular patches.


sinensis? #1


#2
Is the angle of the bare skin too wide for sinensis?



#3
Surely this one is too big, with a particularly sturdy bill. But look at the perpendicular skin patch - in the field I thought I saw a much wider angle. Perhaps the pose in this photo is misleading?

Here are #1 and #2 together - from this picture number 2 looks like it has an angled gular patch more like carbo


sinensis #1 and #2


... and then there was this beauty !

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