Cormorant Drying its Wings

Suliformes

Place: Leighton Moss, Lancashire
Date: 9 February 2017.


Place: West viewing platform, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 17 May 2018.


Place: River Taff near M4 Motorway, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 July 2020.






Place: Eight-Arch Bridge, Bosherton Lakes, Pembrokeshire
Date: 21 July 2020.



Place: Gyllyngvase beach, Falmouth, Cornwall
Date: 9 September 2020.




Place: River Taff near Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 November 2020.



Place: River Taff on Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 November 2020.






Place: Cromer, Norfolk
Date: 26 September 2021.




Place: RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands, Cheshire
Date: 8 October 2021.



Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 18 November 2021.


[Phalacrocorax carbo, Family Phalacrocoracidae, Order Suliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great cormorant]

The sound of the cormorant (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)

Distribution and sightings of the cormorant across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of the cormorant across the British Isles