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Microcarbo niger
I agree with Zlatan, this looks much closer to an immature Indian Cormorant. The length of the beak is another good indicator that this is not a Little Cormorant.
Here are some links to compare:
Little Cormorant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_cor...
http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php...
Indian Cormorant: http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php...
http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php...
To me this looks more like Indian cormorant, because of bronzy appearance, yellow bill and blue eye...
im not that good with birds =) but as i know Phalacrocorax grnerally refers to the bird family Phalacrocoracidae , to which the comorants belong.The Microcarbo genus was formerly subsumed within Phalacrocorax.
**Microcarbo has been recognized as a valid genus by the IOC’s World Bird List (Gill and Donsker 2010) on the basis of work by Siegel-Causey (1988), Kennedy et al. (2000), and Christidis and Boles (2008). - Via wikipedia
Spotted on Aug 5, 2013
Submitted on Nov 5, 2013
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