Description
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Size: medium to large. Plumage: black with purple gloss; white filoplumes on head and neck when breeding. Immature brown to grey brown above, brownish white below. Bare parts: iris dark emerald; facial skin and gular pouch black; bill grey-black; feet and legs black with pink toes; eyelid black with yellow beads. Immature with dull yellow face and grey-green bill. Habitat: marine. <388>
- license
- cc-by-4.0
- copyright
- WoRMS Editorial Board
- bibliographic citation
- Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. <em>Academic Press, London.</em>
- contributor
- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
