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I live just outside the city of Preston in Lancashire and support my home town football (soccer) team #PrestonNorthEnd.
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john.f.lomax@tutamail.com

Monday, March 2, 2026, 1:46 PM from Fedilab

john.f.lomax@tutamail.com
Monday, March 2, 2026, 1:46 PM from Fedilab

What's this bird?
Was surprised earlier to see this bird on one if the local nature reserve ponds!
Is it a #WhiteHeadedCormorant?

#Cormorant #LongtonBrickcroft #Lancashire #Birds

a bird, with a dark body like a cormorant but with a white head, it has dark markings over the beak in an almost semi circle to under the beak is sitting on a stump that rises slightly above the waters surface

#birds #cormorant #Lancashire #LongtonBrickcroft #WhiteHeadedCormorant

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What Bird?🦜

in reply to john.f.lomax@tutamail.com Monday, March 2, 2026, 5:14 PM

A Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) with partial leucism, we reckon:
bto.org/learn/about-birds/beha…

Plumage abnormalities | BTO

^www.bto.org

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john.f.lomax@tutamail.com

in reply to What Bird?🦜 Monday, March 2, 2026, 5:28 PM from Fedilab

@What Bird?🦜
Thanks for the reply, that is what Merlin Bird app said, but it showed a normal Great Cormorant.

Also, thanks for the link, most interesting.

Edit - mention of link

@What Bird?🦜

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