Erika and I have seen many Double-crested Cormorants, but never ones with white ornamental breeding crests running above and behind their eyes. But we saw several such birds on our visit to the Nisqually national wildlife refuge on 1 April 2021. It turns out that these crests are variably colored—black in eastern North America, but mostly (and even totally) white in the West. We are more familiar with eastern Double-crested Cormorants, but we find it odd that we have never noticed the white plumes during our two springs here in western Washington.
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