Little Cormorant (Phalacrocorax niger) & a water monitor (Varanus salvator)

Little Cormorant is very common residen. Usually it sits for long period on a dead tree, half sub-merged rock or river bank with its wings spread to dry them up..They are all dark coloured or black and have stout beaks with a strongly hooked tip, long necks that can be distended, retracted and twisted with ease, long streamlined bodies, long tails and wide round wings.Captive juvenile water monitors will do well on a diet that consists of fish, frogs and an occasional newborn rodent. As adults, water monitor diets can include more rodents and other small mammals, insects, mollusks and fish.