There are sizable numbers of Neotropical cormorants (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) that hang around the lakes near where I live here in Tempe. As I drove home this evening a flight of about ten of them were moving from one of the lakes westwards to another nearby lake. That sparked the posting of a poem.
Children imitating cormorants
Children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants.
Kobayashi Issa / translated by Robert Hass
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Is Phalacrocorax olivaceus the same species as Double-crested Cormorants?
The double-crested is P. auritus.