Beautiful plumage! > On 28 Jul 2018, at 16:46, Jostein <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/mellomskarv/ > > As an aside, if cormorants are up to something, would it be a cormoraspiracy?
I think it would be normal - the bastards are always up to something. There are two collective nouns in English for cormorants - a coven, and a plot. Only one for shags though - a Love Island. > > The pictured bird is a subspecies of Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo > sinensis) that has had an almost explosive increase in numbers in the last > decades. From being restricted to a small population in Southern Finland in > the seventies, it is now present all over Scandinavia. > > It's the first time I have spotted it by the lake at our cabin, however. > > Jostein > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
