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Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the cormorant.

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.

Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Cormorant. Although cormorants are common on rocky and estuarine shores, increasingly they are breeding inland in tree colonies - where branches whitened by their droppings are a giveaway in summer.

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Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Image courtesy of RSPB

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