serenamay's Identifications

California, USA
Cynoglossum grande Lehm.
Boraginaceae "Borage family"
Determined by: Kenton Kiser 3/10/21
Locality: Santa Cruz County, Glenwood preserve
Altitude about 680 ft.
Habitat: Redwood forest, well shaded.
Collection date: 3/10/21
Collector: K. Kiser
Notes: White appendages at throat, with blue tube.

Often seeing flying in long lines low over the water, or standing drying their outstretched wings. These cormorants feed, roost and nest together. A male chooses the nest site, attracts a female, then gathers seaweed for the nest while the female builds it. Both parents incubate the eggs and feed their young. Breeding adults have vivid cobalt-blue throat patch and eyes during breeding season.
Pelagic Cormorants nest on cliff faces and Brandt's nest on top of rocks. Brandt's nests are nearly uniformly spatially segregated-- the length of an adult to lean over and steal the nest material of others.

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America, ed. Jon L. Dunn, 2008, pp. 88-89.

Monterey Birds, Don Roberson, 2nd ed. 2002, sponsored by Monterey Peninsula Audubon Society, p. 107.

Often seeing flying in long lines low over the water, or standing drying their outstretched wings. These cormorants feed, roost and nest together. A male chooses the nest site, attracts a female, then gathers seaweed for the nest while the female builds it. Both parents incubate the eggs and feed their young. Breeding adults have vivid cobalt-blue throat patch and eyes during breeding season.
Pelagic Cormorants nest on cliff faces and Brandt's nest on top of rocks. Brandt's nests are nearly uniformly spatially segregated-- the length of an adult to lean over and steal the nest material of others.

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America, ed. Jon L. Dunn, 2008, pp. 88-89.

Monterey Birds, Don Roberson, 2nd ed. 2002, sponsored by Monterey Peninsula Audubon Society, p. 107.