Brandt's Cormorant Flying Carrying Nesting Material, a clump of seaweed (marine algae) and surf grass, La Jolla.
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 40812
Brandt's Cormorant Portrait with Breeding Plumage, with blue throat and white feathers on each side of the head.
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 40816
Sea Caves, the famous La Jolla sea caves lie below tall cliffs at Goldfish Point. Sunny Jim Cave. Sunrise. Sea gulls floating in the water blur in this time exposure. Cormorants rest on jagged edges of the cliffs.
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 37470
Mated pair of Brandt's Cormorants tend to the nest they have built on sea cliffs. Note the colors they assume during mating season: striking blue gular pouch (throat) along with faint blue-green iridescence in their plumage.
Species: Brandt's cormorant, Phalacrocorax penicillatus
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 40135