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Red-faced Cormorant Sounds

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Alaska, May 28, 2013Recorded by Andrew Spencer / Macaulay Library

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Typically silent except at the nest, when adults make various guttural moans, groans, croaks, and hissing sounds.

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Cormorants and Shags(Order: Suliformes, Family: Phalacrocoracidae)

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Red-faced Cormorant

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