Angolan island paradise for Cape Cormorants
Blog post on Conservation Namibia by By Gail C. Potgieter, 9th August 2019.
Take a close look at the image. Each black dot is a Cape Cormorant (see below) as seen from a light aircraft. Can you count the cormorants? This aerial view of a colony of Cape Cormorants is a composite of several of the thousands of images taken during a 2017 survey of Ilha dos Tigres, an island off the coast of Angola. The purpose of this survey was to document all visible animals using this island, so every dot?
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Published:21/08/2026
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Blog post on Conservation Namibia by By Gail C. Potgieter, 9th August 2019.
Take a close look at the image. Each black dot is a Cape Cormorant (see below) as seen from a light aircraft. Can you count the cormorants? This aerial view of a colony of Cape Cormorants is a composite of several of the thousands of images taken during a 2017 survey of Ilha dos Tigres, an island off the coast of Angola. The purpose of this survey was to document all visible animals using this island, so every dot?
