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22nd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Nature's partnership!

Do you know cormorants are the best hunting partners for the brown pelicans? Yes they are. Cormorants love to hunt for fish as a group – twenty sometimes over a hundred. They stir up the fish when they dive under the water. The pelicans love to follow these cormorants so they can dive bomb the fish when they come close to surface.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 12.2023
Date Uploaded: 09.2024
Photo Location: Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Camera: ILCE-1
Copyright: © Jack Zhi