Pelagics are almost never seen out of sight of salt water. They apparently
do not fly from one body of water to another over land. Double-crested is
the one seen away from coasts and estuaries. Juveniles are whitish on the
chin, throat, and breast. Double-crested Cormorants commonly sit with
wings spread out (for drying? thermoregulation? because they think it
looks cool?). Dennis Paulson says that Pelagics never exhibit this
behavior, and in ten-plus years of looking, I cannot contradict him (on
anything else, either!).

Hal Opperman

At 6:12 PM -0500 03/18/99, BrewsPad at aol.com wrote:
>Hello Tweeters:
>
>Hal Opperman wrote:
>
>>>*Pelagic* cormorants? In the Green River???
>
>Well, that's what I've ID'd them as. I've seen them in the spring, then again
>in the fall for the 4 or so years that I've been here. There's large plastic
>pipes that span the Green River at 240th and Russell Road and again at the par
>3 golf course. Have seen them sitting on these pipes on numerous occasions
>'drying' out with wings at half mast as well as just sitting there. Have also
>seen them numerous times while they were diving and fishing.
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>Jim Brewster
>BrewsPad at aol.com
>Kent Washington