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Double-crested Cormorant

Category: Pelicans, Boobies, Cormorants

Photographer: Ruth Ann Angus

Photographer's Website: website

Key Identifying Points: In breeding feathers, white head tufts and orange face skin

Comments: Common

Common on clear open waters from ponds and rivers to open ocean. Roosts in trees. Nests in Heron Rookery near Museum of Natural History in Morro Bay. Dives for fish sometimes in large flocks.