There are a number of collective nouns for a group of cormorants, a “flight,”, a “rookery,” a “gulp” (I found that on the Internet. It must be true, right?), a “rookery,” or a “swim.”
In this case I think it should be a raft of cormorants, don’t you?
Reminds me of our human teenagers–they just enjoy hanging out with one another!
They are fun to watch…we have mostly anhingas, which are almost the same, and I love to see them dive in one spot and come up a 100 yards down the river!
Those look like Pelagic Cormorants, rather than the more common Double-crested. I keep checking the ones here, but still none in breeding colours. Everything is late this year!
A raft fits their current circumstances!
I thought they were on a surf board heading to shore 🙂 Nice shot, Kay.
Ha — ‘raft’ is a good one! I must say….I’ve never heard ‘gulp’ or ‘swim’. Although, whenever I see cormorants they’re usually alone.