Red-faced cormorants nest throughout the Aleutian Islands and into the Gulf of Alaska, with the Pribilof Islands colonies marking the extreme northern limit of their range. As black-legged kittiwakes continue to show little interest in nesting this season, red-faced cormorants have been our primary focus so far on St. Paul. Currently we are monitoring 68 nests in productivity plots throughout various sites around the island, many nests with pairs already incubating a clutch of 2-3 eggs. Amazingly, a few days back we already spotted the first chick of the season, a major deviation from a mean hatch date typically in late June.
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM +1.4x, ISO-400 f/5.6 @ 1/800 sec.
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