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race. They go teetering and tumbling along, using their short, unfledged wings 
as if they were a poorly handled pair of crutches. 
However awkward the young cormorants are on level ground, they are ex- 
perts at climbing. I put one youngster down three feet below his nest and he 
scrambled up an almost perpendicular bank. His sharp claws easily caught into 
CLIMBING THE ROCKS 
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the] rough.' surface of the rock, and he used his undeveloped wings like hands to 
hang on and help him up. When he got up to the edge of the nest, he hooked his 
bill in parrot-fashion and clambered over the rim. 
From the summit of the Outer Rock, we could look directly across several 
