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17-10-2010, 04:14 PM
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| | | Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
Is this a great Cormorant? 
It was huge compaired to the other Cormorants about. |
17-10-2010, 04:24 PM
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| | | Re: Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
Looks like a juv. cormorant to me.
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17-10-2010, 04:35 PM
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| | | Re: Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
Great Cormorant is the full name of our regular species- which this is + a 1st winter bird. |
17-10-2010, 05:00 PM
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| | | Re: Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
This was much larger than any of the adults there. There was a few of us asking what the hell it was. |
17-10-2010, 05:44 PM
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| | | Re: Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
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Originally Posted by StRoRo  This was much larger than any of the adults there. There was a few of us asking what the hell it was. | White plumage always makes birds look comparatively larger than black plumage if same species side by side due to optical conditions - white reflects light/black absorbs it as you probably know. Juv/1w birds often tend to appear larger than full grown adults due to carrying more fat as well as having 'fluffier' feathers due to the poorer quality and softer structure cf. to adults. Looks fine for a 1w Cormorant cf. to the Black-headed Gulls in the foreground. |
17-10-2010, 07:06 PM
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| | | Re: Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
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Originally Posted by Picidae Juv/1w birds often tend to appear larger than full grown adults due to carrying more fat as well as having 'fluffier' feathers due to the poorer quality and softer structure cf. to adults. . | Fat/muscle scores and juv vs adult plumage is not discernible to the naked eye just by looking at a bird. A fat bird doesn't look any different to a thin bird, as the feathers cover it all, and the absolute differences are pretty small.
Isn't carbo a bit bigger than sinensis? And maybe males bigger than females? |
17-10-2010, 08:24 PM
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| | | Re: Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
I originally thought it was a juvenile however as stated before it was easily noticabley larger than the rest.
I have stiched together another comorant with the same breed of seagull in the foreground on the same flash so you can see that this one does seem larger/fatter than normal.  |
17-10-2010, 08:37 PM
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| | | Re: Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
Feathers are able to be raised, like hairs on your arms. So birds can sleek themselves or fluff up and change their shape, in order to trap air next to the skin. Think of how Robins sometimes look round and sometimes look sleek. So unless the bird is actually longer, it isn't any bigger. |
17-10-2010, 08:54 PM
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| | | Re: Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
It does look bulkier, and I agree with RKB, but also, this may be plumped up as a defence or maybe bloated for some reason unknown to me. Needs to eviscerate?  
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17-10-2010, 09:38 PM
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| | | Re: Bird Id, LIke a cormorant but huge
I agree with the original post. It looks at least 50% bigger. So, is it just a 'big' cormorant.????
I think it is!!
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