Interesting photos of the cormorant. I am no expert on cormorants, but it seems to strongly resemble a race of the European Cormorant, phalacrocorax carbo sinensis, or maybe maroccanus. Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY
--- On Fri, 1/4/13, vanh...@citlink.net <vanh...@citlink.net> wrote: From: vanh...@citlink.net <vanh...@citlink.net> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Unusual Cormorant at Rye Beach, Westchester County To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 9:28 PM Today I birded Westchester County. While scanning the beach and rocks at Rye Town Park I spotted an unusual cormorant on the rocks. The bird had an entirely white belly, throat, and chin. A defined line demarked the face, causing a black cap and white chin. The bill appeared thin. My first thought was Great Cormorant, but I'm not really sure about that. The bird remained on the rocks for the duration of my stay. If anyone has any input as to the identity of this bird I would appreciate the input. I have never seen a cormorant that resembled this bird. The less than stellar photos can be found on my blog at http://bashakillbirder.wordpress.com John Haas -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
