Rooftop Cormorants
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While out surveying gull nests I often see Pelagic Cormorants flying up to their nests underneath the Granville and Burrard Street Bridges, many returning with a beak-full of nesting material.
I was curious where they were gathering it from -– with their legs far back on their body and adapted to swimming, they are awkward while on land. You won’t see them waddling around much since it’s a risky endeavour for them.
Last Sunday I spotted a handful of them gathering vegetation from the ‘green’ rooftop of a building on False Creek and spent quite a while watching them.
Pelagic Coromrant
Pelagic Coromrant
Pelagic Coromrants gathering nest materials
Pelagic Coromrants
Pelagic Coromrant raiding a rooftop garden
Pelagic Coromrants perched on a rooftop
Another group were perched together on a nearby building.