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    #2
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,436 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Looks like a cormorant to me.


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    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,187 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Is it a Cormorant of some sort? Legs are too short to be a Heron I would have thought, unless they're obscured by the rock.


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    mugbags
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭mugbags


    thanks, googled pictures of cormorant and it looks like he's a Great Cormorant, it was the odd looking head and beak that got me wondering. Lived here all my life and never had the pleasure of meeting one in all my years!


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    V Bull
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭V Bull


    Yes, It's a Cormorant, quite common on all Irish shores. Known as the Great Cormorant in America...

    Cormorant in flight..

    img3976zz.jpg

    Some people confuse the Shag (also quite common) with the Cormorant..

    Shag in flight..

    shag.jpg


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