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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: JW Mills on June 27, 2015, 07:25:47 PM

Title: Neotropic Cormorant
Post by: JW Mills on June 27, 2015, 07:25:47 PM

Spotted this bird at Sunnyside Beach on Friday
 
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Swimming%20Birds/NeoC01x006.jpg) (http://s169.photobucket.com/user/zed37/media/Swimming%20Birds/NeoC01x006.jpg.html)
 
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Swimming%20Birds/NeoC02x026.jpg) (http://s169.photobucket.com/user/zed37/media/Swimming%20Birds/NeoC02x026.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Neotropic Cormorant
Post by: Brian Bailey on June 28, 2015, 09:45:48 AM

Nice! I'm hoping to look for it today if the rain holds off for more than a few minutes. I haven't seen any reports of it since Friday afternoon though.  


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Title: Re: Neotropic Cormorant
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on June 28, 2015, 09:49:44 AM

i came here hoping that i'd find the cormorant to be cute. which would be a cormorant first.
but nope. still a cormorant :)

Title: Re: Neotropic Cormorant
Post by: winz on June 28, 2015, 11:11:43 AM

I was at Sunnyside yesterday morning but did not see it.

Title: Re: Neotropic Cormorant
Post by: Dinusaur on June 28, 2015, 11:41:48 AM

Lovely photo. I was also hoping to get there over the week-end. Sigh.

Title: Re: Neotropic Cormorant
Post by: thouc on July 02, 2015, 05:02:53 PM

The Neotropic Cormorant was back today, and I finally got to see it after five tries (including three at Hamilton in the spring).

/Thomas

Title: Re: Neotropic Cormorant
Post by: Dinusaur on July 02, 2015, 06:24:08 PM

Same here. Just before my arrival it flew off to the lake and came back to sit on the break-wall an hour later. The wait was worth it. Here's one for the comparison with its bigger cousin, a Double-crested Cormorant..

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/398/19179190090_04afa8ae4e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vdNn2d)

Title: Re: Neotropic Cormorant
Post by: Rotarran on July 03, 2015, 08:19:20 AM

I wonder if it's the same one that was found in Hamilton back in April.

Title: Re: Neotropic Cormorant
Post by: thouc on July 03, 2015, 09:14:01 AM

Quote from: "Rotarran"

I wonder if it's the same one that was found in Hamilton back in April.

Yes, I was wondering the same thing. Observations from eBird in Ontario and vicinity:

Hamilton Mar 31-Apr 9
South of Buffalo, NY Apr 23-25

Point Pelee, May 13

Marie Curtis Park, Toronto, May 22
Sunnyside Beach, Toronto, Jun 25-Present

Indianapolis, IN Apr 12-19, Apr 28
Lafayette, IN, Apr 30
Indiana Dunes SP, IN, May 6

Clinton, NJ Mar 26-Jun 11

Montgomery County, MD May 9 - Jun 20

So it looks like 3-6 birds have been in the northeast this spring/summer.  The one in New Jersey is overlapping with all other locations. The one in Hamilton/Buffalo could have moved on to either Maryland or Point Pelee/Toronto. Same with the Indiana bird, but more likely to Point Pelee/Toronto as it is closer than Maryland. So the one we see here in Toronto would be either the Hamilton bird, the Indiana bird or a different one. but I guess we never will know for sure.

/Thomas