late sighting – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

New Year’s Day Neotropic Cormorant Sighting

By Mia McPherson|2021-06-25T17:17:57-05:00January 2nd, 2019|Categories: Birds, Neotropic Cormorants, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, cormorant, cormorants, flight, gull, gulls, Larus delawarensis, late sighting, mountains, Nannopterum brasilianum, Neotropic Cormorant, New Year's Day, pond, Ring-billed Gull, Wasatch Mountains, winter|

What caught my eyes was that one of the cormorants was smaller, sleeker and darker than the other two birds and before I even scoped it through my lens I knew that I had found an out of season Neotropic Cormorant.