Double-crested Cormorant

Phalacrocorax auritus

"Common on clear open waters from ponds and rivers to open ocean ... Note size, length of tail, orange throat and lores, and immature's pale neck." (David Allen Sibley's The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, p. 46)

"Juv/Imm: Lower mandible and all facial skin orange. Underparts generally bicolored - buffy or mottled buffy upper breast contrasts with dark belly ...." (Donald & Lillian Stokes's The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, p. 115).

"Uncommon to abundant migrant throughout the state. Double-crested Cormorant is a common to abundant winter resident along the coast, becoming uncommon to locally abundant inland through most of the state."(Mark W. Lockwood & Brush Freeman's The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds, p. 31.)

Photo taken with a Nikon D90, using a Nikon 300mm, f/4.5 manual focus lens.

January 28, 2016.