Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)

Cormorants are equally comfortable perching in trees, pylons, beach, and even phone wires.

Cormorants often hold their wings out to dry off the feathers and for thermoregulation.

Anhingas superficially resemble cormorants, but note the cormorants have more orange in their faces, hooked beaks, and shorter tails.

Hundreds of cormorants perched on this breakwater by the marina.

What it would be like to be in the middle of a cormorant flock flying down the surf line in the coast...