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Hello TrekNature!
Again me with a picture that I just captured yesterday here in Vienna on the banks of the Donau (Danube) river. It is an adult of the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) in the breeding plumage.
A few words about this species:
This is a very common and widespread bird species. It feeds on the sea, in estuaries, and on freshwater lakes and rivers. Northern birds migrate south and winter along any coast that is well-supplied with fish.
The Great Cormorant can dive to considerable depths, but often feeds in shallow water. It frequently brings prey to the surface. A wide variety of fish are taken: cormorants are often noticed eating eels, but this may reflect the considerable time taken to subdue an eel and position it for swallowing, rather than any dominance of eels in the diet. In UK waters, dive times of 20-30 seconds are common, with a recovery time on the surface around a third of dive time.
The Great Cormorant is one of the few birds which can move its eyes, which assists in hunting.Many fishermen see in the Great Cormorant a competitor for fish. Because of this it was nearly hunted to extinction in the past. Thanks to conservation efforts its numbers increased. At the moment there are about 450,000 breeding birds in Western Europe. Increasing populations have once again brought the cormorant into conflict with fisheries, for example, in the UK where inland breeding was once uncommon, there are now increasing numbers of birds breeding inland and many inland fish farms and fisheries now claim to be suffering high losses due to these birds.
www.wikipedia.org
I think this is a beautiful bird and we need to preserve it as once!
Regards,
Luca |
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Hi Luca,
good shot. Thanks.
Hi Luca,
Have done a workshop on this one. Please let me know what you think.
TFS
Kirti
Foarte reusita poza, si nu cred ca avea nevoie de ajustari, oricum e binevenita orice propunere si critica, ai dreptate, culorile naturale sunt cele mai frumoase.
Imi plac detaliile penelor de pe aripi si cum ai surprins postura cormoranului singuratic.
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