Loon, Cormorant, or Other? (1 Viewer)

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Gthang,

Just thought of this.

I read in one of my books that cormorants may form large flocks, whereas loons are often solitary. My bird was the only bird swimming for miles...

"cormorants may form large flocks" . . . doesn't say they always do - very often they don't, I've seen plenty of single cormorants

Michael

 

[gthang]

Good point.

Thanks again, guys!

 

[Taco]

To me, its DEFINATLY a cormorant (double-creasted, unless some Great came in from the coast...), doesn't even look like a loon by shape at all, sorry...

 

[Bluetail]

I've never seen a Common Loon/Great Northern Diver hold its bill as consistently high as in your pics. As Steve G said, if the bird was a loon it would have to be Red-throated Loon. But everything about the jizz says Phalacrocorax. On the basis that it looks more like a European Shag than a Great Cormorant, I was favouring Double-crested Cormorant even before I read the replies.