#cormorants

[thunderstruck9]

Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), Cormorants, 1958. Watercolor and ink on paper, 21 3/4 x 30 1/8 in.

[snototter]

A white-breasted cormorant (Phalacrocorax lucidus) amongst the weeds in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Leon Oosthuizen

[sleepy-sluggo]

Double-crested cormorants (ft. Female bufflehead and lesser scaup)

[nobrashfestivity]

Walther KLEMM (1883 - 1957)

Cormorants Woodblock Print, signed, 1912

[clawmarks]

Florida Cormorant. Carbo floridanus - after John James Audubon - 1835 - via Bonhams

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Double-crested Cormorant

Photo: Colin Durfee

"This dark, long-bodied diving bird floats low in the water with its thin neck and bill raised; perches upright near water with wings half-spread to dry. The Double-crested (which rarely looks noticeably crested in the field) is the most generally distributed cormorant in North America, and the only one likely to be seen inland in most areas."

- Audubon Field Guide

[life-on-our-planet]

Cormorants hunt by diving from the surface of the water and propelling themselves underneath with webbed feet and occasional help from their wings. Their wings are relatively short due to the need for economical movement underwater, and consequently cormorants have among the highest flight costs of any flying bird. © ║ ©

[antiqueanimals]

Charles F. Tunnicliffe.

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[sherrylephotography]

My photography @sherrylephotography taken 9/23 posted 10/23

Cormorant drying its wings

Pomo Bluffs Park

Califronia

[dinosaurwithablog]

I just found out that there are cormorants in my lake!!! I love those birds!! 😍

[snototter]

A long-tailed cormorant, or reed comorant (Microcarbo africanus) dries its wings after hunting, in Africa

by Charles Sharp

[sleepy-sluggo]

double crested cormorants got their blue mouths and crests out for breeding season >:)

[daaas-haa]

THIS IS BUTT HEAD

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Cormorants in the tree

Credit: Anne Bonfert

[sandpaperoctopi]

some birds

[antiqueanimals]

The Common Objects of the Seashore. Written by John George Wood. 1857.

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