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Pelagic Cormorant	Phalacrocorax pelagicus
	This looks like the total resident population sitting out the tide

Here is video (WMF 384K) of breeding plumage – except the diagnostic white patch as below left

TPL_bird_cormorant_breed1.WMV

	Diving for Seaweed July 2000
	Pelagic Cormorant colony near Triple so we get to see them diving for subtidal algae to build their nests with – see the video WMF file 212K --- and here is similar sequence where the cormorant has a mouthful but dives again for more (WMF 215) TPL_cormorant_dive1.WMV

	Sentinels
	This is our more typical view of Cormorants – standing on rocks drying their wings etc--- looking like some Raven of myth changing cloasks to visit beneath the water-world

Created by LG Monday, November 24, 2003