* Phalacrocorax penicillatus Brandt's Cormorant

The Brandt's Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax penicillatus ) is a strictly marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabits the Pacific coast of North America.

Brandt's Cormorant have been observed foraging at depths of over 40 feet.

Artwork of a Brandt's Cormorant, published in 1859

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Image: Brandt's Cormorant chick. jpg | A Brandt's Cormorant fledgling with a green field-readable J75

He described several birds collected by Russian explorers off the Pacific Coast of North America, including Brandt's Cormorant, Red-legged Kittiwake and Spectacled Eider.

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They ranged in size from that of a large cormorant ( such as a Brandt's Cormorant ), to being 2 m long.

Both Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist on that before they enter the government.

Although anxious to relieve serious hardships for divided families and to reduce friction, Brandt's Ostpolitik was intent on holding to its concept of " two German states in one German nation.

He became Chancellor of West Germany on 16 May 1974, after Brandt's resignation in the wake of an espionage scandal.

They also criticized flaws like the unintentional publishing of the Bahr-Papier, a paper in which Brandt's right hand Egon Bahr had agreed with Soviet diplomat Valentin Falin on essential issues.

Though anxious to relieve serious hardships for divided families and to reduce friction, West Germany under Brandt's Ostpolitik was intent on holding to its concept of " two German states in one German nation.

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The Socialist party was created under the umbrella of Willy Brandt's SPD in Bad Münstereifel, Germany, on 19 April 1973.

In his work on the biographies of artists, Arnold Houbraken quotes Gerard Brandt's biography of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, relating the anecdote where Willem van de Velde asked Admiral de Ruyter permission to have a galley row him around for a good view of the proceedings on the evening of the Four Days battle in 1666.

Widely regarded for his guitar skills, has performed as a session musician on albums such as Garth Brooks ' Double Live, Dixie Chicks ' Fly, and Paul Brandt's This Time Around.

The " Willy-Wahl ", Brandt's landslide win in following elections was as well based on most German views that Brandt's Ostpolitik-symbolized by the Kniefall-as well as his reformist domestic policies was helping Germany to gain international reputation and was to be supported.

The Great Cormorant breeds mainly on coasts, nesting on cliffs or in trees ( which are eventually killed by the droppings ), but also increasingly inland.

Image: Lithuania Juodkrante Great Cormorant colony 1. jpg | A colony of Great Cormorants in Juodkrantė, Lithiuania, and damage to the trees in which they are nesting

Quoin Bluff, mid-way along the eastern side of the island, holds an important Pied Cormorant nesting colony which, along with Freycinet Island some 80 km to the south-east, forms the Quoin Bluff and Freycinet Island Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International.

Pelican Island is home to many nesting birds including Brown Pelicans, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Reddish Egrets, Great Blue Heron, Little Blue Heron, Tricolored Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, American White Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Double-crested Cormorant, Anhinga, and American Oystercatcher .< ref name =" GORP ">" Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge ," GORP, 8 May 2007, < http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Pelican_Island_National_Wildlife_Refuge >.</ ref >

The island's dense brush supports a major nesting colony of several species of birds, notably Black-crowned Night Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, and Double-crested Cormorant.

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The most common birds on the Gulf beach of the park during the year are the Willet, Sanderling, Black Skimmer, Great Blue Heron, Double-crested Cormorant, Cattle Egret, Grey Plover, Laughing Gull, Brown Pelican, Reddish Egret, and five species of terns, including the Least Tern, Caspian Tern, Black Tern, Sandwich Tern, and Royal Tern.

Great Cormorant s and seagulls on the Belosaraysk Spit.

Its name in the Ojibwe language is Neyaashiing, meaning " on the point of land " due to its location on Indian Point ( also known as University, Cormorant or Shawboshkung Point ) of Mille Lacs Lake.

The Sounds are home to the entire breeding population of the rare and vulnerable Rough-faced Shag ( also known as the New Zealand King Cormorant ) which nests on a small number of rocky islets there.

Little Pied Cormorant s on the Derwent River

The arms show a Great Black Cormorant on a gold background.

The Pelagic Cormorant breeds on rocky shores and islands.

The Little Pied Cormorant is a benthic feeder, i. e. it finds its prey on the sea floor.

In eastern North America, it is similarly larger and bulkier than Double-crested Cormorant, and the latter species has more yellow on the throat and bill.

* Great Cormorant videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection

It is distinguished from the Great Cormorant by its smaller size, lighter build, thinner bill, and, in breeding adults, by the crest and metallic green-tinged sheen on the feathers.

The green sheen on the feathers results in the alternative name " Green Cormorant " sometimes being given to the European Shag.

Approximately 80 % of the global population of the endangered Bank Cormorant Phalacrocorax neglectus breeds on Mercury Island and in the Ichaboe Islands.

The Pied Cormorant appears to feed largely on benthic fish.

Gulls and Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax carbo ) nest in the dry heath and grassland areas, whilst Fulmar ( Fulmarus glacialis ), Kittiwake ( Rissa tridactyla ) and auks nest on the cliffs.

At the tip of the peninsula on the western side of the lake are the " Bird Islands " ( Cormorant Island and Egg Island ), which have been bird sanctuaries of the Qinghai Lake Natural Protection Zone since 1997.

Other birds found on Andros include the West Indian Woodpecker, the Loggerhead Kingbird, La Sagra's Flycatcher, the Greater Antillean Pewee, the Bahama Mockingbird, The Red-legged Thrush, the Thick-billed Vireo, the Black-whiskered Vireo, the Olive-capped Warbler, the Black-cowled Oriole, the Greater Antillean Bullfinch, the Black-faced Grassquit, the Melodious Grassquit, the Least Grebe, Olivaceous Cormorant, the Flamingo, the Bahama Pintail, Osprey, Kestel, Sooty Tern, Roseate Tern, Noddy Tern, White-crowned Pigeon, Zenaida Dove, White-bellied Dove, the Smooth-billed Ani and the Cuban Emerald Hummingbird.

In România, according to studies of Czech ornithologist Robert Ritter von Dombrowski at the end of XIX century, the Pygmy Cormorant was present in large colonies in Danube Delta, Brăila and Ialomiţa Pond, on Vederoasa Lake ( Constanţa County ), on certain pools and ponds with reeds and willows in Muntenia.