Borden
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Very nice!
Famously have blue mouths, really. And their beaks have that curve, as well.Something feels odd...
I didn't know they have blue throats and can bend their beaks like that.
It's a very nice image but... are you trying to test us with an AI created image ?
AI.? no. That’s a real photo of a cormarant on the Ottawa river.Something feels odd...
I didn't know they have blue throats and can bend their beaks like that.
It's a very nice image but... are you trying to test us with an AI created image ?
Something feels odd...
I didn't know they have blue throats and can bend their beaks like that.
It's a very nice image but... are you trying to test us with an AI created image ?
Being unfamiliar with a particular variety of bird, its coloring (particularly with breeding plumage) shouldn't necessarily lead someone to believe that it has been AI generated or overdone in post. A quick search would reveal that during the breeding season, the eyes and mouth/throat of a Double-Crested Cormorant do, indeed, turn a bright blue-teal color.I'm not aware of any cormorant with a blue throat. The eye color is off. So either overdone processing, or an A.I. generated image. The blacks on the chest are way too crushed also.
Well apparently there exists blue throated Cormorants in the world, so I stand corrected. At some point, I will have to take a deeper dive into Cormorants. In my part of the world, USA North East, I see young Double Crested Cormorants, actually, I've seen nesting Cormorants with juveniles now that I think about it. I've seen and photographed them many times, but I have never seen one with a blue throat. So all this is news to me, and if they are turning blue, they are doing it somewhere secretly, apparently.Being unfamiliar with a particular variety of bird, its coloring (particularly with breeding plumage) shouldn't necessarily lead someone to believe that it has been AI generated or overdone in post. A quick search would reveal that during the breeding season, the eyes and mouth/throat of a Double-Crested Cormorant do, indeed, turn a bright blue-teal color.
2X converter, f/16, and 1/800th... ain't going to be sharp.
Take close note of the eye color of the ones you see. Most should have a greenish eye. The only ones that have a blue throat are the adults in breeding plumage. And you’ll only see that when their mouth is completely open.Well apparently there exists blue throated Cormorants in the world, so I stand corrected. At some point, I will have to take a deeper dive into Cormorants. In my part of the world, USA North East, I see young Double Crested Cormorants, actually, I've seen nesting Cormorants with juveniles now that I think about it. I've seen and photographed them many times, but I have never seen one with a blue throat. So all this is news to me, and if they are turning blue, they are doing it somewhere secretly, apparently.