09/10/2023
Double-crested Cormorants are gangly water birds with a long tails and necks.
They are completely black except for yellow-orange skin around the base of their long hooked bills and have pretty turquoise color eyes.
Double-crested Cormorants are incredibly unique looking.
Many people thinking they appear to be a cross between a loon and goose.
They are expert divers eating fish almost exclusively, which they catch underwater with their perfectly adapted hooked bill.
Double-crested Cormorants don’t have waterproof feathers, so after swimming, they have to dry them.
One of the BEST ways to find these water birds in Colorado is to look for them on perches with their wings spread out.
Double-crested Cormorants emit unique deep guttural grunts, which sound more like a large walrus than a bird.
This Video Captures Double-crested Cormorants Fishing For Their Breakfast At Around 10am In Spite Of The Loch Estes Monster, Cannon Fire & Bagpipe Music Emanating From The Long's Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival By The Shores Of Lake Estes On 09 September 2023.
