Some water birds like cormorants never seem to fly over land. They'll hug the shoreline but never venture more than a dozen yards in.
They must view land the way we view water. Exceptional crossing territory.
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I was just thinking what seabird I'd like to be and decided cormorant
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but if you were a pelican you could hold a whole shark in your face
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Going for spear mouth over baggage space
Anhinga might be even better (snakebird). Slytherin of birds.
Pelicans are kinda hufflepuffy
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once I was at the japanese garden run by a water reclamation project in los angeles and they stocked tons of fish, just swarms
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and a few cormorants had discovered this and they were just diving and eating incessantly just gorging themselves
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If you like that sort of thing and ever go back to India, don't miss this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keoladeo_
...I lost count of the variety. It's like a costco of waterbirds, each in thousands.
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I didn't even know the park was there, I just had some time to kill in Bharatpur on the way to see a solar eclipse in 95 and saw a sign for the park and bike rentals so went on a whim... turned out to be the best wildlife experience I've had to this day.
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