Little Black Cormorant

Phalacrocorax sulcirostris

Description:

All black cormorant with a 1 m wingspan, common in flocks in park ponds, along the coast throughout most of Australia except the central dry desert.

Habitat:

I watched this flock in the ponds at Centennial Park, Sydney, NSW. I noticed them from a distance because a flock of Silver Gulls was joining in the feeding frenzy that they were creating. They would dive down and ones from the back of the flock would jump forward and dive down and they were eating all the time they were jumping up to the surface. The gulls would grab whatever they could when they had a chance. Really fun to watch these cormorants doing cooperative hunting, herding and feeding of fish. It was hard to narrow this spotting down to just 5 photos:)