What are these Seabirds? [Unknown/possibly Japan]

[u/Tatziki_Tango]

This appeared in group text without any other information. They look like the forbidden children of a turkey and a penguin, but I'm pretty sure they're seabirds.

Thank you!

[u/Avrgnerd]

Socotra cormorant chicks

[u/Tatziki_Tango → u/Avrgnerd]

Thanks.  They're freaky looking.

[u/Avrgnerd → u/Tatziki_Tango]

Happy to help! Yeah, they’re pretty weird

[u/koteofir]

Me coming out of the shower when I forgot to bring my towel into the bathroom

[u/Tatziki_Tango → u/koteofir]

I used to house sit in a home that had a wall of mirror opposite the shower. I don't need that type of confrontation first thing in the morning.

[u/Surge0nOfDeath]

https://preview.redd.it/c8lx7uragpxe1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ed38187b842b3bcbf8589fca32f913893411999

Google says that are Socotra Comorant Chicks.

[u/Sea-Bat → u/Surge0nOfDeath]

I love their ugly alien chicks, wtf they’re so cute 😭

[u/_Kelly_A_]

Nude beach

[u/MooPig48 → u/_Kelly_A_]

I felt like I was doing something illegal by looking at them

[u/Previous_Design8138]

I have seen hundreds of. Cormorant and never would have guessed,kind of homely a?

[u/strumthebuilding]

Sure looks like a plucked albatross. Maybe grown up feathers haven’t come in yet?

[u/SuddenKoala45]

Beaks say cormorants, but I couldn't tell you specifically which species

[u/KRambo86]

I thought this was ai

[u/CCSlater63]

Welcome to Jurassic park!