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Lesser Frigatebird: This large seabird is mostly black, with brown band on secondary coverts, white mark where inner wings meet body, and a red throat patch that inflates during courtship displays. Long pointed wings, long forked tail, long gray hooked tip bill, and short gray legs and feet. Female has black hood and white breast. Feeds on squid and fish. Graceful soaring and swooping flight.
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Little Pied Cormorant: Small black and white cormorant with white underparts, face, and front. Black crown, nape, and upperparts with black-green gloss. Short to medium green-yellow bill with slightly hooked tip. Long, rather broad wings. Fairly long tail with rounded tip. Sexes similar. Juvenile gray-brown above, gray-white below.
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Little Black Cormorant: Small black cormorant with green gloss to plumage, blue-green eye, and medium black-gray bill with small hooked tip. Back black-gray with black scaling. Long, somewhat pointed wings. Fairly long, slightly rounded tail. Sexes are similar. Non-breeding adult lacks white speckling on head. Juvenile has black-brown underparts.
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