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red-faced cormorant

 
Western Bird Guide: red-faced cormorant
 


Phalacrocorax urile 28-30″ (70-75 cm). Note the bright red of the adult's face (extending to forehead and behind eye). Throat pouch bluish; bill pale. Otherwise, similar to Pelagic Cormorant, which has a dull red pouch, restricted dull red on face; thinner bill. Immature: Differs from Pelagic in having a thicker pale bill.

Range: Alaska, ne. Asia.

West: Resident in Pribilofs and Aleutians; east locally to Kodiak I., Prince William Sound.


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Western Bird Guide. Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson. Copyright © 1990 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more