Double-breasted Cormorant (2023-02-15 #9)

            Doube-breasted Cormorant.

At 30 to 35 inches long, a solidly built black cormorant with an orange throat pounch and a long neck.  It's long hooked bill is tilted upwards when it swims.  During breeding seasons the adults have a short tuft of feathers over each eye.  The young birds are browner with a tan or whitish color on their necks and upper breast.  When they fly their neck will show a slight crook unlike the Great Cormorant or Neotropic.

They inhabit lakes, rivers, swamps and coasts.

They range from Alasks east to Newfoundland and south to Mexico in the west and the Bahamas in the east.  THey winter mainly on coasts.

Sterling State Park, Monroe County, Michigan.

Taken on: February 15, 2023

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Camera: Canon EOS R5, f/6.3, 1/2000 sec, 375mm, ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS R5
Lens:	TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 A022
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/2000)
Focal Length:	375mm
ISO:	320
Exposure Bias:	+1/3 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Partial
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.2 (Windows)
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