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  Indian Cormorant (non-breeding plumage)

 

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An adult Indian Cormorant, fishing in the waters around the Sunken Palace in Jaipur (fig.).

 

Adults are overall black with a whitish chin and lower head-sides, and uneven whitish to pale brown streak-like markings on the lower throat and breast.

 

  Indian Cormorant (non-breeding plumage)

 

  Indian Cormorant (non-breeding plumage)

 

It lacks the yellow and white colouring around the face and throat of the Great Cormorant (fig.).

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