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Red-legged cormorant; Chilean name Lile        Images © Mark A. Chappell

If any cormorant can be called beautiful, this is the one.   It is a common bird on the Chilean coast, where I photographed these near the southern city of Valdivia.   Unfortunately, they were a long way away on a cliffside, in very bad light, so these images are not the best -- but I hope they convey an impression of the striking plumage of this species.

  • Canon 1D3, 500 mm f4 IS lens, 2X converter, most with 1.4X converter in addition, fill-in flash (2009)