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Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo
46.3547, 6.15166
Field Notes
Description:
Large, but presenting a high level of variations in size, black bird with a thick neck. It sports some bare yellow skin at base of lower mandible, surrounded by a white patch. The breeding adults develop white patch on thighs, disappearing as soon as July. It is often seen perched with its wings spread to dry.
Habitat:
Common and widespread bird species, found near the bodies of water well supplied with fish (lakes, estuaries, rivers). Here, on banks of a small artificial recreational lake in eastern wetlands of pays de Gex (France); in a valley just between Jura range and Geneva lake.
Notes:
Spotted in a small colony during the Wetlands Bird Count 2019. Btw, on that first photo, I'm not in a bird-watching cabin or shelter - I'm just on a wrong side of a tall fence...
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