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Life in the estuary

Little pied cormorants on a log in the Pukehina estuary, NZ.

Little pied cormorants enjoying life in the Pukehina estuary. They usually dive for food in relatively shallow water, consuming flounder, other small flatfish, eels and insect larvae.

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