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Phalacrocorax auritus
large brown water bird, able to dive underwater due to little oil in its feathers
waters with fish
Spotted on Sep 27, 2011
Submitted on Sep 27, 2011
7 Comments
u are a bird genius, bravo, thankyou for your help!
thankyou
And the Australian counterpart of the Anhinga would be the Darter :)
It's a Double-Crested Cormorant. The Anhinga would show a slimmer head and white-barred wings.
In Australia we call them 'Shags'
u may be right on that one, ill look into it, thankyou!
looks like a type of grebe but u describe it as large so im not sure