Local Notes
When my cormorant visits, she circles the dam-water before plunging into its depths looking for food. Then she’ll perch on a branch to spread her wings in the sun like a queen. Then she sleeps. When she leaves she rises steeply to the sky. One day, I hope she’ll stay and build a nest in a branch over the water.
by Kitty van Vuuren
Bird Overview
The Little Pied Cormorant is one of the most common of Australia’s waterbirds, occurring on water bodies of almost any size. It is entirely black above and white below. The face is dusky and, in adult birds, the white of the underside extends to above the eye. Immature birds resemble the adults except there is no white above the eye.
The Little Pied Cormorant resembles the Pied Cormorant, Phalacrocorax varius, but is easily distinguished by its smaller size and proportionately shorter bill The Pied Cormorant also has an orange-yellow face patch and black thighs.
Credit Birdlife Australia
