Little Black Cormorant

Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris)

The Little Black Cormorant is a small cormorant measuring 60–65 cm (23½–25½ in) with all black plumage. The back has  a greenish sheen.In breeding season, White feathers appear irregularly about the head and neck, with a whitish eyebrow      evident. The plumage is a more fade brown afterwards. Males and females are identical in plumage. The long slender bill is    grey, and legs and feet black. The iris of the adult is green and the juvenile brown. Immature birds have brown and black  plumage.

The Little Black Cormorant feeds mainly on fish, and eats a higher proportion of fish than the frequently co-occurring Little  Pied Cormorant, which eats more decapods. A field study at two storage lakes, Lake Cargelligo and Lake Brewster, in  southwestern New South Wales found that the introduced common carp made up over half of its food intake.

These guys tend to hang out on the island drying themselves after fishing in the lake.