Here's a delightful Australian Seabird Rescue story from Rhonda....
This is very young " Little Black Cormorant '' (which is its name as opposed to Cormorant or pied cormorant). He was found in a backyard at Fairy Meadow, after obviously having left Mum and was undernourished. At the same time we had a very gentle pelican in care who had recovered from pneumonia. The poor Little Cormorant decided to adopt the pelican as its Mum. It snuggled up to her and walked around with her every step. At night I found it sleeping under the pelican's chest.
What was I to do when it was time to release them? I decided to release them together. When they arrived at the lake the pelican swam towards the breakwall and the Little Cormorant followed. Later on in the day 3 more adult Little Cormorants arrived and since then they have adopted the juvenile and they fly around together.
The pelican is doing fine also.
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| Little Black Comorant |
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| Little Black Comorant adopts a pelican for its' mum! |
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