Double-crested Cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus
The white plumes and brighter orange-yellow bill and throat indicate breeding plumage.
A first-cycle bird coming in for a landing. The lighter underparts are characteristic of birds during their first year, especially later in the cycle when their feathers are worn. Some first-cycle birds have much darker underparts.
Double-crested Cormorant perched, drying wings. Unlike most birds, cormorants do not have water-repellent feathers, so they only enter the water to feed and bathe, and then spend a good deal of their time out of the water with their wings spread, drying off.
Adult on nest, showing the double crest.
About-to-fledge young birds, begging from a parent at the nest.
Flying.
Double-crested Cormorant, left, with Brandt's Cormorant, both in breeding plumage.