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.