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Various Cormorants, Cape Town, South Africa (1 Viewer)

Deb335077

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please help me distinguish between the various cormorants, all taken in September around the water treatment works in Cape Town


Thank you
 

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1. Great cormorant. Deep-based bill, no forehead.
2-5 (and probably 6). Long-tailed/reed cormorant. Face pattern, yellow bill, long tail, not on the sea.
 
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