Hi Tweets,

Chris Maack writes:

>Michael, I agree with you about the beauty of cormorant
>plumage. Many subtle shadings and iridescences, but
>you have to be close.

And upwind of the roost.

Actually, depending on the angle of light, cormorants' eye-color ranges from
turquoise to emerald to a dark jade, while the plumage is, depending on
species, mostly electric bottle-greens, bronzes, electric midnight blues,
that have to be seen to be believed.

>Also, your remark >And those Lake Louise-turquoise eyes!>
>Does that refer to the breeding colony of Double-
>cresteds on Lake Louise in Alaska?

In the early part of this century, God and the Canadian Pacific Railway
decreed that the turquoise-hued one in Canada's Banff National Park is the
only one which makes it onto the travel posters. '-)

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