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Cormorant Drying Its Wings: Photos Of The Day
After chasing its meal underwater, a cormorant is drying its waterlogged wings.
ALAMEDA, CA — If you have spent any time watching the birds along the Alameda shoreline you have likely seen pelicans and cormorants diving for fish. While pelicans dive from the air and quickly pop right back up, cormorants floating on the water dive below the surface for more than two minutes, resurfacing some distance from their dive point. They are able to do this because air is not trapped in their wings. This explains why you sometimes see cormorants drying their waterlogged wings by holding them up, like laundry drying on a clothesline.
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Thank you to Nick Stellato for sharing these photos!
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