Aquatic Birds

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Mugging

When the juvenile cormorant came up from its dive with a fish, it was immediately mobbed by the gulls who caused the fish to be dropped. Ring-billed gulls are vicious thieves. You can see the cormorant with just its head above the water about to buried under gulls.
Juvenile Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
Ring Billed Gulls (Larus delawarensis)

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