2008 © Maxim Tabachnik
Cape Verde Cormorant
This close-up reveals the striking green eye and hooked bill of the Cape Verde cormorant, a coastal subspecies of the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo lucidus). The yellow throat patch aids in courtship display, while the sharply curved beak is specialized for gripping slippery fish in the Atlantic waters surrounding the archipelago
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