Saturday, September 23, 2017

Brandt's Cormorants

In January, the male cormorants select nesting sites and begin work on the nest. Then they dance: 



Eggs are incubated by both parents, using the feet: 



Baby cormorants hatch out featherless and altricial: 

Over a few weeks, they grow rapidly and develop fuzzy down, though the head remains bald:



Feed me!

More dancing

Go away! 



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