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The white-breasted cormorant (Phalacrocorax lucidus) is a species of cormorant closely related to the widely distributed great cormorant.While debate persists over whether it constitutes a distinct species or a regional variant of the great cormorant, its distinguishing features include a white breast and a preference for freshwater habitats among its subpopulations. [2]
Double-crested cormorant. Birds portal; Animals portal; Cormorant culling is the intentional killing of cormorants by humans for the purposes of wildlife management. It has been practiced for centuries, with supporters of culling generally arising from the angling community. Culling techniques may involve the killing of birds, the destruction ...
Their major predators are black-backed jackals, which take the occasional adult while it is roosting, and nest-site predators such as great cormorants, eastern great white pelicans, and kelp gulls. Like a number of other related cormorant species, the Cape cormorant is placed by some authorities (e.g. Johnsgaard) in the genus Leucocarbo.
White-breasted cormorant. Phalacrocorax lucidus (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823) the Cape Verde Islands to Guinea-Bissau and from Angola to the Cape of Good Hope and northwards on the east coast to Mozambique. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Great cormorant or black shag Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Adult in breeding plumage with white crests Juvenile plumage, California. The double-crested cormorant is a large waterbird with a stocky body, long neck, medium-sized tail, webbed feet, and a medium-sized hooked bill. It has a body length of between 70 and 90 cm (28 and 35 in) long, with a wingspan of between 114 and 123 cm (45 and 48 in).
Cape cormorant: Phalacrocorax capensis: 19 Japanese cormorant: Phalacrocorax capillatus: 20 White-breasted cormorant: Phalacrocorax lucidus: 21 Great cormorant: Phalacrocorax carbo: 22 European shag: Gulosus aristotelis: 23 Flightless cormorant: Nannopterum harrisi: 24 Neotropic cormorant: Nannopterum brasilianum: 25 Double-crested cormorant ...
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The great cormorant was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Pelecanus carbo. [3] The great cormorant is now one of 12 species placed in the genus Phalacrocorax that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. [4]