Breeding adult © Claudia Brasileiro eBird S39924318 Macaulay Library ML 73387491
Juvenile © Noah Strycker
Nonbreeding adult © Chris Wood
Breeding adult © Patrick MONNEY
Breeding adult © Andrew Spencer
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Breeding adult © Pablo Andrés Cáceres Contreras
Nonbreeding adult © Jeremiah Trimble
Breeding adult © Ricardo Doumecq Milieu

Magellanic Cormorant Leucocarbo magellanicus

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Identification

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Also known as Rock Shag, this rather small cormorant is fairly common along rocky coasts where it feeds mainly in inshore waters. Nests colonially on cliffs and other steep surfaces, sometimes on jetties with colonies of Imperial Cormorants. Adult is distinctive with a white body, black head and neck with variable white face patch, and a red eyering. All-dark juvenile told from Neotropic Cormorant by pink feet and dark face with reddish eyering.

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