Phalacrocorax carbo
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Do not try to free a bird tangled in line or netting by hand: the hooked bill can badly injure hands and eyes — wrap it in thick cloth and get help. Never handle a dead waterbird bare-handed, as it may carry avian influenza.
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Stands on a rock, buoy or bare branch with wings spread out to dry, a posture no other waterbird here adopts
Bare yellow skin at the base of the bill with a white chin patch just below it
Looks all black at distance, but close up the back is bronze and scaled like fish scales
Swims with the body almost submerged, only the neck and up-tilted bill showing, and gives a small leap before diving
Long grey bill with a hooked tip, quite unlike the dagger bill of a heron
