Indian Cormorant

The Indian cormorant is found mainly along inland waters of the Indian subcontinent, west to Sind and east to Thailand and Cambodia. It is a medium-sized, gregarious bronze-brown cormorant scalloped with black on the upperparts. It has no crest, a small slightly peaked head with a sloping forehead, a long narrow bill with a hooked tip, blue eyes and bare yellow facial skin outside the breeding season (Wikipedia, general species account).

It fishes gregariously in inland rivers or large wetlands of peninsular India and the northern part of Sri Lanka, per Wikipedia. It is the same size as the little cormorant but distinguished by its blue eyes and longer narrow bill. Breeding birds have a short white ear tuft. Nationally Least Concern (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012).