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Indian Cormorant

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"Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing."
- John Arbuthnot

The Indian cormorant species is distributed in India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. It's scientific name is Phalacrocorax fuscicollis. These type of birds are mostly in medium size, measuring 60cm in length and weighing 600g to 700g. These birds have a long tail and long thin bill ending in hooked tip. A characteristic of the birds is the blue colour of the eyes. It is bronze brown coloured and the uppon plumage is scalloped in black. Breeding bird have a short white ear tuft.

These bird nest on half submerged trees and trees in island. the nest is built with twigs. The usual clutel is three to five eggs. These cormorant is a resident bird and moves locally in search of feed and water bodies. Indian Cormorant birds feed mainly on fish and catch the pray by driving in the water. They are seen moving in a formation to corner fish. Habitat degradation, human activity in the breeding habitats and drying up of water bodies are the major threats to their survival.

"Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity."
- William Shakespeare


Photo Credits: Sirojan
Written By: T.Kobiga

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