Bird - Australian Cormorants

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Australian Cormorants
FAMILY : Cormorants
Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens)		The Black-faced Cormorant is a large cormorant with black upper parts, a bare black face, and white under parts. The legs and feet are black and there is a black mark on the thigh. The bill is dark grey, and the eyes are blue-green. After diving... Click to continue>
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)		The Great Cormorant is mainly black except for some white and yellow on the face. There is a small white patch on each thigh during summer. The bill is grey and the legs and feet are black. Juveniles are similar to adults but are dark brown. Click to continue>
Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris)		The Little Black Cormorant is a black cormorant with a greenish sheen to the back and a slender grey hooked bill. Click to continue>
Little Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax melanoleucos)		The Little Pied Cormorant is black above and white below. The face is dusky and, in adult birds, the white of the underside extends to above the eye. Immature birds resemble the adults except there is no white above the eye. Click to continue>
Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)		Upper body black, underparts white. Bill pale yellow-brown. Eye ring blue. Black feathers above the legs. Body up to 75 cm long. Pied Cormorants nest in colonies. They dive under water to catch fish near the sea bottom and sometimes also eat... Click to continue>
FAMILY : Darters
Darter (Anhinga melanogaster)		The Darter is a large slender water bird with a long snake-like neck and sharp pointed bill. Male Darters are dark brownish black with chestnut brown under parts. The wings are glossy black on top, streaked and spotted white and silver. There is a... Click to continue>

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