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anhinga or cormorant – brown. They both have long necks and dive to catch fish

How To Tell The Difference for food. However, there are many differences between
the two. The first difference is the shape of their beak.
Cormorants have a curved beak, while anhingas have a
By Katie Roundtree, sharp, pointed beak. Cormorants eat primarily fish and
Director of Finance and can eat up to one pound of fish per day. Anhingas eat fish,
Administration, Northern crabs, frogs and other invertebrates. They use their pointed
Palm Beach County beak to stab their prey and bring it back to shore to eat.
Improvement District Anhingas have longer necks and fuller, longer tails than
Have you ever walked cormorants. The anhinga’s nickname is the water turkey
or driven by a lake in the due to the size of its tail. Their other nickname is snake
area and seen a bird sitting birds since their neck is as long and curved as a snake. Anhinga Cormorant
by the side of the lake with They can be seen swimming slowly through the water with
their wings outstretched only their necks and head above the surface. Cormorants Next time you see one of these dark-colored birds
and wondered what they are more compact and are powerful swimmers. They use with their wings outstretched, try to see if you can tell if
were doing? Two types of their webbed feet to dive deep and catch larger fish. they are an anhinga or a cormorant. Remember, “C” for a
birds found in lakes around Palm Beach County display Their plumage and eyes are also slightly different from curved beak and wearing basic black is a cormorant, and
this activity: anhingas and cormorants. These birds with each other. The anhinga is slim with white markings on if it has a sharp, pointed beak, long tail, and wearing a
snake-like necks will perch by the water and spread their its back, like a coat of light-colored feathers, and blue- light-colored jacket, it’s the water turkey or anhinga.
wings to dry after diving for food. When the anhingas green to reddish-colored eyes. The cormorant is stockier npdeS tip: It is important to never dump any debris,
and cormorants enter the water, their feathers get soaked than the anhinga, with no markings on its back and crystal including but not limited to landscape waste, garbage or
because they don’t possess oil glands like other water blue eyes. chemicals into a storm sewer inlet. While bulky materials
birds. However, this allows them to move faster and more Finally, the two types of birds vary in how they fly can cause flooding, chemicals and other wastes that are
efficiently through the water. Their feathers soaked with through the air. Anhingas soar and flap their wings dumped into a storm sewer eventually drain into lakes and
water make them very heavy when they get out of the occasionally once their wings are dry. They need a canals, which threaten fish and wildlife and pollute the
water. Therefore, they have to stand in the sun with their taller platform to take off from to soar through the sky. water. Please check our website for information regarding
wings extended to dry themselves in order to fly again. Cormorants flap their wings the whole time they fly, illegal dumping.
Anhingas and cormorants look similar when spotted allowing them to take off more easily from the ground Photos by Lucas Schaffer,
from afar. They are both dark in color, either black or dark than anhingas. Environmental Manager, NPBCID
town of Jupiter news

By Jim Kuretski, they did in the current year. All nonhomesteaded residential to Dig for the balance of the property. This Certificate to Dig
Mayor, Town of Jupiter and commercial properties will get some financial benefits establishes conditions, such as notification of work that will
The Town Council works from the 3 percent millage rate reduction, as well. disturb the site, monitoring of work and stopping work if/as
with our town manager, staff, archeological and historical property preservation (Suni may be required, that must be met should the property owners
and others to address issues Sands) elect to proceed with any development.
affecting our residents and A 3-to-2 Town Council majority approved a final order on If human remains are found, then pursuant to Florida
businesses. The following the Suni Sands property at its July 25 special meeting. Statutes, all activities must stop and the Town, relevant
provides a summary of The subject property is 10-plus acres in size and located agencies, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the State Division
actions and achievements on the south side of the Jupiter Inlet. It is often referred to as of Historical Resources must be notified, and they must
since last month’s community the Sperry property and/or Suni Sands property. provide approvals before any work can resume.
newspaper report: Portions of the property have a prehistoric history dating Stay tuned.
Jupiter lowered its ad back 5,000 years and a later history as the origin of the Town
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