Double-crested Cormorants

Description:

Double-crested Cormorants are large waterbirds with small heads on long, kinked necks. They have thin, strongly hooked bills, roughly the length of the head. Their heavy bodies sit low in the water. Adults are brown-black with a small patch of yellow-orange skin on the face. Immatures are browner overall, palest on the neck and breast. In the breeding season, adults develop a small double crest of stringy black or white feathers.

Habitat:

Sunning and resting from migration on stumps in Lake Lewisville.

Notes:

Movie shows the main group flying from one side of the peninsula to the other. They fly in groups to new spots on the lake throughout the day.