Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
Expert fishers, Double-crested Cormorants are a fairly common sight on the north side of Lake Ontario this time of year.
Soaking up some sunshine
Supposedly they do not winter on the Great Lakes but I saw a few in Hamilton, Ontario last year where they stayed out our nastiest winter in many years.
Coming up after a dive
Drying off
Added later: The double-crest is visible on adults only during breeding season.
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49 comments:
Awesome shots of the DC Cormorants.. The second one soaking up the sunshine is one of my favorites..Have a great day!
I agree awesome!
I am fascinated by these birds ever since I saw a PBS special on them. Lovely clicks CameraGirl. I especially like "Drying Off"!
I think they are tough birds. But I think your winter would have been still tougher.
lovely photos and I'm left wondering where is the 'double-crest'?
You always capture such great detail; I love the way the feathers are outlined.=)
They are nicer up close than I thought. They look drab and ugly form far off.
They look quite distinctive.
Really beautiful birds, and I love your captures. Especially the third one.
Mersad
Mersad Donko Photography
I think we have more anhingas down here than cormorants, but they look a lot the same. Nice captures, EG!
Interesting birds. Lots of them out this way too. MB
we see them quite often down here as well (Massachusetts, north shore of Boston) but I don't get to see them this close-up very often. They are not exactly the prettiest birds I've ever seen but they do have their own sort of beauty.
Brilliant shots. Cormorants are so prehistoric looking with those reptilian-like, scaly feathers.
such cool birds. love their eyes an their feather detail!
They really have such striking eyes! Super shots!
Awesome shots!
I was just about to ask where the double crests were. I do like to watch cormorants dive.
Darla
These are wonderful pictures of the cormorants. I especially like your first photo. Thanks for explaining why I didn't see the double crest.
Your images really captured the feather details superbly. I can never catch them in the right light. Great job!
Beautiful, well done!
These are excellent pictures! I have seen one cormorant in my life, he was out on a rock in the middle of a huge pond. Needless to say my pictures were so bad that I deleted them. So it is great to finally see one up close!
Fantastic close ups. They actually are quite pretty in a strange way when you look closely at them.
HI EG Fantastic shots of these birds.
A wonderful and interesting bird.
Wonderful birds... fantastic images.
Interesting birds. You got some good pics!
A pleasure to see these birds close up.......lovely photos!
Gorgeous. These birds escape me down by my local harbour. Great captures.
great captures, they have beautiful eyes!!!!
Too bad they seem to be a problem for trees when they all nest together in huge numbers!
those eyes are wild. neat-o!! ( :
Fabulous shots. I have to look up cormorants again, I thought they were black, perhaps they are here and yours are different...
Glad you edited to let us know about those crests. These are great shots!
What beautiful birds they are!
They almost don't look real.
I love the one soaking up some sunshine!
You get such good pictures of this bird.I usually see them only in flight and from far away.
Beautiful water birds, these cormorants! Great photos of them.
wow, those guys really posed for you. Great shots all of them. :)
Oh, your DC Cormorants look different from our dark grey ones and love its sweet emerald eyes♡♡♡
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I guess climate change is altering their habits? Nice-looking fellows!
They have such an interesting beak.
Gorgeous birds! If I see cormorants here, they're always far away.
I love these guys when they open and flap their wings to dry, such show offs :)
Fantastic captures. I love the photo of the sunbather!
Thanks for sharing these wonderful photos.
Beauty of a set~
Wonderful pics! It's weird to think that they are related to the Pelicans but now I understand why they'd hang around one.
And by winter they will be visiting me.
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