Brandt's Cormorant - The Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) is a strictly marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabits the Pacific coast of North America. It ranges in the summer from Alaska to the Gulf of California but the population north of Vancouver Island migrates south during the winter. Its specific name penicillatus is Latin for a painter's brush (pencil of hairs) in reference to white plumes on its neck and back during the early breeding season. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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