Cormorant - Indian Cormorant or Indian Shag

Description:

This medium-sized bronze brown cormorant; scalloped in black on the upper plumage; no crest; a small and slightly peaked head with a long narrow bill that ends in a hooked tip; eyes blue; bare yellow facial skin during the non-breeding season; breeding birds have a short white ear tuft. In some plumages it has a white throat but the white is restricted below the gape unlike in the much larger great cormorant. Sexes are similar, but non-breeding adults and juveniles are browner. Photo taken at Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan, India

Habitat:

Wetland, rivers, estuaries, mangroves. But not in open coast