Volume 28 • July 29, 2022
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🦜 The Flyer 🦜
by Flying Colors
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Bird of the Week: The Neotropic Cormorant
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Found in Texas, Mexico, and Central and South America
 Hear Their Song
If you’ve ever passed by a tree full of Neotropic Cormorants with their arms outstretched on a foggy night, you know how spooky they can be. Sometimes hundreds of them take to lakeside trees, or a rooftop, or floating buoys, and open their arms while standing perfectly still to dry their wings. But during the daytime they can usually be found swimming and fishing.
These agile birds with a bit of orange at the base of their beaks and S-shaped necks can dive deep underwater in search of small fish, frogs, or insects. They also make a grunt that some people have described as sounding like a pig or even the Grudge.
Fun fact: Cormorants are used as fishing partners by humans in many parts of the world. You may have seen this viral Tik Tok of a Chinese fisherman accompanied by Great Cormorants.
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Give a Hoot
Birding bits you should know about this week
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Your Shot
An amazing bird photo taken by one of our community members. Submit yours to hello@flyingcolors.co to be considered for an upcoming edition!
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Is it the cormorants, whose black wings, one by one,
Cut the blue wave that o'er them breaks in liquid pearls?
Is it some hovering sprite with whistling scream that hurls
Down to the deep from yon old tower a loosened stone?
— “Moonlight on the Bosphorus” by Victor Hugo
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About Us
Flying Colors makes premium organic wild bird food, offering ethically sourced, toxin-free seeds and nuts of the highest quality to nourish wild birds of all types and inspire birders of all ages. Each specialty blend and single origin creation is rigorously sourced & researched, and every jar is produced with love & packaged by hand in small batches in New York's Hudson Valley and tested in our own backyards.
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