John Shaw / Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in flight. Gilbert Water Ranch, Arizona, USA. January.

John Shaw / Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in flight. Gilbert Water Ranch, Arizona, USA. January.

John Shaw / Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in tamarisk tree. Gilbert Water Ranch, Arizona, USA. January.

John Shaw / Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in tamarisk tree. Gilbert Water Ranch, Arizona, USA. January.

John Shaw / Neotropical cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) catching catfish. Rio Claro, Pantanal, Brazil. September.

Bernard Castelein / Neotropic cormorant ( Phalacrocorax brasillianus) feeding on fish, Pampas del Yacuma Protected Area, Bolivia

Nick Hawkins / Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) drying wings, Cano Negro, Costa Rica, April.

David Tipling / Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) immature Chucunaque River, Darien National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site, Panama.

Jack Dykinga / Flock of Neotropic cormorants ( (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) on wire at sunset, Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, USA. November.

Jack Dykinga / Flock of Neotropic cormorants ( (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) on wire at sunset, Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, USA. November.

Jack Dykinga / Flock of Neotropic cormorants ( (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) on wire at sunset, Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, USA. November.

Cyril Ruoso / Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) large numbers in trees only in dry season, Pacaya Samiria NP, Amazon, Peru

Tony Heald / Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) swimming with fish in beak, Pantanal, Brazil

Angelo Gandolfi / Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), Santa Catarina, Brazil, September.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Neotropic Cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) perched in Pink Ipe tree (Tabebuia ipe / Handroanthus impetiginosus) during the blooming season, Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Western Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Neotropical cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in Pink Ipe tree (Tabebuia ipe / Handroanthus impetiginosus) during the blooming season, Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Western Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Neotropic Cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) taking off on the shore of Japura River, Alvaraes, Amazonas State, Northern Brazil.

Konrad Wothe / Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) drying wings, Sandoval Lake, Tambopata National Reserve, Peru, South America.

Konrad Wothe / Olivaceous Cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) drying wings, Sandoval Lake, Tambopata National Reserve, Peru

Gerrit Vyn / Neotropic / Olivaceous Cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceous / brasilianus) Anahuac NWR, Texas, USA

Nigel Bean / Olivaceous cormorant {Phalacrocorax olivaceous} Trinidad 1999

Nigel Bean / Olivaceous cormorant {Phalacrocorax olivaceous} drying wings, Trinidad 1999

Hermann Brehm / Three Olivaceous cormorants swimming {Phalacrocorax olivaceous} Pantanal, Brazil

Gabriel Rojo / Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) perched on a tree, silhouetted by the sun, La Estrella Marsh, Formosa Province, Argentina.

Jack Dykinga / Neotropic cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) squabbling over territory, Gilbert Riparian Preserve, Arizona, USA.

Jack Dykinga / Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in flight, Gilbert Riparian Preserve, Arizona, USA.

Jack Dykinga / Three Neotropic cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) squabbling over territory, Gilbert Riparian Preserve, Arizona, USA.

Claudio Contreras / Neotropical Cormorant (Phalacrocorax / Nannopterum brasilianus) juvenile, Ria Celestun Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, January