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Great cormorant with hooked bill Little cormorant with wings spread. Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large seabirds. They range in size from the pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmaeus), at as little as 45 cm (18 in) and 340 g (12 oz), to the flightless cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi), at a maximum size 100 cm (39 in) and 5 kg (11 lb).
Brandt's cormorants live on the Pacific coast of North America, in habitats such as bays, estuaries, and lagoons. [4] This species nests on the ground or on rocky outcroppings. Año Nuevo Island is an important seabird breeding colony in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, hosting Brandt's cormorants among other species of seabirds.
The double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum) is a member of the cormorant family of water birds. It is found near rivers and lakes and in coastal areas and is widely distributed across North America , from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska down to Florida and Mexico .
The cormorants would eventually recognise this pattern and refuse to perform the eighth dive unless the fishing line was untied, and if the reward fish was not provided it would refuse to dive altogether. [30] In Norway, the cormorant is a traditional game bird. Each year approximately 10,000 cormorants are shot to be eaten. [31]
Little cormorant: Microcarbo niger: 4 Little pied cormorant: Microcarbo melanoleucos: 5 Red-legged cormorant: Poikilocarbo gaimardi: 6 Brandt's cormorant: Urile penicillatus: 7 Red-faced cormorant: Urile urile: 8 Pelagic cormorant: Urile pelagicus: 9 Spectacled cormorant: Urile perspicillatus: 10 Bank cormorant: Phalacrocorax neglectus: 11 ...
The imperial shag or imperial cormorant (Leucocarbo atriceps) is a black and white cormorant native to southern South America, primarily in rocky coastal regions, ...
The Cape cormorant or Cape shag (Phalacrocorax capensis) is a bird endemic to the southwestern coasts of Africa. It breeds from the coastal area of Namibia to southern Western Cape. In the nonbreeding season, it may be found as far north as the mouth of the Congo , also extending its home up the east coast of South Africa as far as Mozambique .
Rock shag or Magellanic cormorant: The coast of Argentina, Uruguay and southern Chile. Leucocarbo bougainvillii: Guanay cormorant: The western coast of South America (Extirpated from Argentina). Leucocarbo ranfurlyi: Bounty shag: Bounty Islands. Leucocarbo carunculatus: New Zealand king shag, rough-faced shag or kawau: New Zealand. Leucocarbo ...