Our San Diego's Pacific Rocky Shores Trip (San Diego Bird Festival) took us to Cabrillo National Monument on Friday, March 6, 2009. We saw numerous Brandt's Cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) roosting and nesting along the craggy shores. This is an interesting species because of its social habits and its physical characteristics. Males and females are similar with long, hooked bills, long tails, long, thin necks and a gular region that is blue with yellowish lower border during breeding (see photograph). Brandt's Cormorants often perch with their wings spread in order to dry them. It was a partly cloudy morning with temperatures in the mid-60's.
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