Sylvain Cordier / Flightless cormorant (Nannopterum / Phalacrocorax harrisi), with piece of algae in beak to build nest, Fernandina island, Galapagos Island, April 2005.

Pete Oxford / Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) stretching wings, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Flightless cormorants (Nannopterum harrisi) preening in nesting colony with volcanic eruption, Cape Hammond, Fernandina Island, Galapagos.

Tui De Roy / Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) sticking head underwater, Punta Vicente Roca, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) swimming underwater, Cape Douglas, Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Kevin Schafer / Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) drying wings, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Christophe Courteau / Flightless cormorant {Nannopterum harrisi} Fernandina Is, Galapagos.

Tui De Roy / Flightless Cormorant (Nannopterum / Phalacrocorax harrisi) at nest regurgitating fish for chick. Puerto Bravo, Banks Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, December.

Tui De Roy / Flightless Cormorants (Nannopterum / Phalacrocorax harrisi) at nest, made of dead starfish. Puerto Bravo, Banks Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, December.

Tui De Roy / Flightless Cormorant (Nannopterum / Phalacrocorax harrisi) in classic cormorant wing-spread pose to dry plumage. Punta Espinosa, Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, June.

Tui De Roy / Flightless Cormorant (Nannopterum / Phalacrocorax harrisi) at coastal colony. Banks Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, December.

Tui De Roy / Flightless Cormorant (Nannopterum / Phalacrocorax harrisi) on nest with chick. Banks Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, December.