Little Pied Cormorant - gathers oil from its preen

Little Pied Cormorant - gathers oil from its preen gland as it dries its wings after a fishing session. (Phalacrocorax melanoleucos). Cormorants do not have waterproof feathers and must oil them from the preen gland at the base of the tail after fishing. Note that this bird has old brown primaries and secondaries in its right wing

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