Size: 33 inches
Overall Color: black
Occurrence: near water
Diet: fish
Nest: nest on islands
Field Identification: large, orange or yellow hooked bill, inconspicuous crests on either side of crown
Season: year-round

Double-breasted Cormorant
Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: Suliformes
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Phalacrocorax
species: auritus