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The genus Phalacrocorax was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) as the type species. [3] [4] Phalacrocorax is the Latin word for a cormorant. [5] Formerly, many other species of cormorant were classified in Phalacrocorax, but most of these have been split out into ...
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 42 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags.Several different classifications of the family have been proposed, but in 2021 the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) adopted a consensus taxonomy of seven genera. [1]
fishing colony in Latvia. The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. [2]
It was formerly classified in the genus Phalacrocorax, but a 2014 study supported reclassifying it and several other American cormorant species into the genus Nannopterum. [3] The IOC followed this classification in 2021. [4] Its scientific genus name is derived from the Greek words νᾶνος : nános, "small" and πτερόν : pterón, "wing".
Phalacrocorax penicillatus Brandt's cormorant ( Urile 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.
The little black cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It is common in smaller rivers and lakes throughout most areas of Australia and northern New Zealand, where it is known as the little black shag. It is around sixty centimetres long, and is all black with blue-green eyes.
Phalacrocorax albiventer Phalacrocorax atriceps The imperial shag or imperial cormorant ( Leucocarbo atriceps ) is a black and white cormorant native to southern South America , primarily in rocky coastal regions, but locally also at large inland lakes.
The little cormorant is about 50 centimetres (20 in) long and only slightly smaller than the Indian cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis).The Indian cormorant has a narrower and longer bill which ends in a prominent hook tip, blue iris and a more pointed head profile.