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Neotropic cormorant

Phalacrocorax brasilianus brasilianus (Gmelin)

Length: 30 – 75 cms.

All plumage brilliant black. Beak with hooked point. Bare dark skin around the beak. Black feet. In the courting plumage here are white threadlike feathers on the sides of the face. Throat and around the beak.