#little pied cormorant

[dovemoulins]

cormorants have to be one of my top birds to photograph. they dont move much, Silly looking and have such pretty feathers

[branchflowerphoto]

A little pied cormorant dries its wings, Albany, Western Australia 🪶

[tbalderdash-art-blog]

Day 8 of Pied Month! Little pied cormorant? More like cormaront!

Reference photo by JJ Harrison

(in the low effort art style because I went to an art exhibition to fill up the creativity tank and had to paint when I got home instead of spending ages on a bird)

I'm on Cara, it's a social media for art that's against AI, follow me @ tbalderdash

[redrcs]

Platypus pool, Broken River

Eungella

[birdblues]

Little Pied Cormorant

[magpielark]

awright. who injected cormorants with the silly juice?

look at this guy. look at his little face

he is so polite lookin g

he's so unauthorised someone unsilly him i think im gonna have a meltdown

[birds-in-posts]

Little pied cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos)

got some cool pics of this shag the other day but been losing it over the face on shot

[skydarcyedwards]

U-193-x-009

Sky Edwards

2020

Ballpoint on map.

Experiments with different drawing surfaces for my graduating work in 2020.

Little Pied Cormorant.

[mutant-distraction]

Muneer Al Shanti

Little Pied Cormorants

[magnetothemagnificent]

I am on Spring break so I finally get to focus on birding again! Today's birds:

Little blue heron

Black vulture

Great egret

Sandhill crane

Mourning dove

Cattle egret

Great blue heron

Anhinga

Double crested cormorant

Red winged Blackbird

Limpkin

Wood stork

White ibis

Muskovy duck

Boat-tailed grackle

American crow

American coot

Common gallinule

Common grackle

Glossy ibis

Palm warbler

Common grackle

Osprey

American purple gallinule

Wood duck

Red shouldered hawk

Pied billed grebe

Royal tern

Eastern Phoebe

Roseate spoonbill

Black-bellied Whistling duck

Tricolor heron

Northern harrier

Yellow rumped warbler

Tree swallow

Swallow tailed kite

Ring billed gull

Turkey vulture

Little blue heron

Mallard

White pelican

Red eyed vireo

Mulard

Pekin x Mallard Hybrid (there was this fascinating flock of ducks consisting of mallards, feral pekins, muskovy ducks, mulards (muskovy x mallard hybrid), and Pekin/mallard hybrids)

Feral American pekin

[anonsally]

Day 18 in Australia

Busselton Jetty, Underwater Observatory, and return to Perth

This morning we managed to leave just after 10am, having eaten a bizarre conglomeration of leftovers for breakfast (including pasta and also gelato).

After a short drive, we stopped in Cowaramup, a small town whose name is from the Wardandi word for purple-crowned lorikeet (a bird I sadly did not manage to see), to visit a chocolate shop. We bought some treats and then drove to Busselton to visit the 1.8km-long jetty (a little over a mile; it's the longest timber jetty in the Southern Hemisphere) and the underwater observatory at the end of it. Unfortunately, we were too late to get tickets for the jetty train ride, so we had to walk the whole way and could only visit the observatory for a few minutes in between the visits by people who did have the tickets including the train ride. But that was okay, because there was a very refreshing and strong breeze, making the walk pleasant, and of course it meant I got to do some birdwatching along the way. The best thing was that there was one spot where a few cormorants were resting. Some were Pied Cormorants and some were Little Pied Cormorants; since they were right next to each other, it was easy to see the difference in size and beak proportions.

We finally reached the end of the jetty where the observatory is. (There's also an underwater sculpture garden, which divers can visit, and which acts as artificial reefs, but we couldn't see that.) The Underwater Observatory is basically an aquarium in reverse. An airium, maybe? We walked down a spiral staircase into a cylindrical space that was surrounded by water. It had thick acrylic windows so we could look out into the water; the fish could look in at us. The pilings holding up the jetty were covered with coral of all colors and textures, and there were various fish swimming around, including some stripy fish with lots of fins, some herring, and a box fish. It was incredibly cool. There aren't many underwater observatories in the world, and I really enjoyed getting to be in one. It was like an aquarium, only better because the fish weren't captive. They were just going about their daily life. Maybe they wanted to visit the Airium today to have a look at the humans.

After that, we drove the rest of the way back to Perth. We didn't see much wildlife from the car today. It feels weird to be in a real city again. After checking into our hotel, we went out for dinner at a Korean-fusion restaurant. The food was great and pretty unusual, but it was really loud in there, and we were seated at the bar watching the wood-fired grill chefs: it was very smoky.

Tomorrow we fly back to Sydney.

[dovemoulins]

little pied cormorant!!

[dansnaturepictures]

Eleven of my favourite photos I took in November 2024 and month summary

The photos are of; Great White Egret at Testwood Lakes, Snow Bunting at Sandy Point on Hayling Island, Cormorant at Lakeside Country Park, white deadnettle and view at Lakeside, Fallow Deer at Bolderwood in the New Forest, Red Admiral and shaggy scalycaps at Lakeside, red campion at Testwood Lakes, a characteristic sun going down whilst out view at this time of year at Pig Bush in the New Forest and the moon out the front.

November was another fantastic month of birds for me with a major highlight coming soon into it getting sensational views of the sumptuous Snow Bunting at Sandy Point and another fine species seen late on with only my third ever Red-necked Grebe seen at Weston Shore today. Other key birds seen this month included the seasonal delight of Redwings, Raven, Green Woodpecker, Ring-necked Parakeet, Greenfinch and Siskin. Glorious Great White Egret views, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Curlew, Wigeon, Teal, Shoveler, Pochard, Red-crested Pochard, Goosander and Egyptian, Greylag and Brent Geese brought a sprinkling of blissful wading birds and waterfowl to observe, evocative of autumn and winter for me. This month I also enjoyed seeing Buzzard, Red Kite, Jays, Kingfisher including at Winnall Moors and Lakeside in another strong month I had for them, Cormorant, Great Northern Diver, Slavonian Grebe, Mistle Thrush, Blackbirds, Robin, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Wren, Pied Wagtail and Tufted Ducks and Mute Swans which were especially nice to see on patch at Lakeside and a young one in Winchester respectively. Common Gull was another key bird seen this month with one returning to Lakeside which is always thrilling to see, with Herring Gulls enjoyed there too. I also took pleasure in some great Winchester Peregrine and Grey Wagtail and Lakeside Great Crested Grebe, Coot and Moorhen views this month. A dashing male Sparrowhawk at home was another special bird to see.

I got fine and immersive views of Fallow and Roe Deer this month, seeing a fair few New Forest Ponies, Grey Seal, Grey Squirrels and Brown Rats too. There was still some butterfly interest this month with some great views of a Red Admiral at Lakeside. Bee, wasp and hoverfly including marmalade hoverfly were also nice to see with Grey Silverfish and spiders seen well at home. It was a good month for plants still with a fair bit seen flowering including knapweed, marsh thistle, red campion, herb-Robert, hedgerow crane’s-bill, periwinkle, hedge woundwort, red clover, some early winter heliotrope and violet at and near Lakeside, hogweed, wild carrot, ragwort, petty spurge, dock, white deadnettle, stinging nettle, red deadnettle, groundsel, ivy-leaved toadflax, viper’s-bugloss, scentless mayweed, sea mayweed, oxeye daisy, daisy, dandelion, oxtongue, sow thistle, buttercups, ivy, rock samphire, red valerian, evening primrose, gorse, common heather, bell heather and cross-leaved heath. I enjoyed observing seed heads a lot this month with teasel, fleabane, spear and creeping thistle, wild carrot, hogweed, old man’s beard, purple loosestrife and hemp agrimony standing out and leaves including common toadflax, thistle and ferns. Apple, privet berries, rose hips and holly berries led the way for fruit seen.

Fungi once again played a key role in my month as I was captivated by enigmatic shaggy scalycaps and intricate patterns of turkey tail at Lakeside with the latter seen elsewhere too. Crowded parchment, waxcaps, dung-loving deconica, possible winter russula, pleated inkcap, earthball and parasol in a good autumn I’ve had for them and a notable new one for me seen a couple of times in the New Forest handsome club were other highlights. I also liked seeing moss and lichen including oakmoss. I took in a lot of charming landscape and sky scenes this month again with the splendour of autumnal colour continuing to grip the landscape giving way to morning frost scenes as winter crept in towards the end. Sunsets, sunrises and some great full moon scenes were wonderful to take in this month too alongside lake, wetland, coastal and New Forest woodland and heath vistas. Wishing you all a great December.

[voidbirds]

Meet Wally! The Little Pied Cormorant.

Once again showing off Curumbin's relationship with animals from the wild. Wally was rescued and healed up by their wildlife hospital but he still comes around for every pelican show for a snack and as we can see, picks a peak spot to get the best fish.

[whatsthebird]

What's the Bird?

Location: Tasmania

Date: January

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Happy Birding!

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[drhoz]

Cooleenup Island Species List - BIRDS - June 9th to 11th 2023

12C-18.5C, 2.4mm-12.5mm rain, strong wind on Sunday

(taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Clements, version 2022)

Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis Eurasian Coot Fulica atra Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii Australasian Darter Anhinga novaehollandiae Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius Great Egret Ardea alba White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae Australian Ibis Threskiornis molucca Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes Swamp Harrier (immature) Circus approximans White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus Galah Eolophus roseicapilla Little Corella Cacatua sanguinea Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius Redcap Parrot Purpureicephalus spurius Splendid Fairy-wren Malurus splendens Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata Spotted Scrubwren Sericornis maculatus Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca Black-faced Cuckooshrike Coracina novaehollandiae Gray Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen Gray Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa Australian Raven Corvus coronoides Scarlet Robin Petroica boodang Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena Tree Martin Petrochelidon nigricans Silvereye Zosterops lateralis