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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another great site is cannon beach oregon
waterbirds in general seem to make for way better bird watching than land because they're just so visible and densely clustered and generally larger
seagulls are like peanuts, best watching areas are like mixed nuts with <50% peanuts
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best I’ve seen is florida, it’s like that but with great egrets instead of seagulls as the peanuts
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egrets are better peanuts to look at, but seagulls do more fun things I think, esp. when alone. In groups, they're idiots.


