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.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Brazilian Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) drying its wings by the Pixaim River. The Pantanal wetlands of Mato Grosso State, Brazil, November.

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