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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]
Diet: LC 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)
Alternatively, the genus may be disassembled altogether and in the most extreme case be reduced to the great, white-breasted and Japanese cormorants. [20] In 2014, a landmark study proposed a 7 genera treatment, which was adopted by the IUCN Red List and BirdLife International , and later by the IOC in 2021, standardizing it.
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 ...
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).
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]
The diet of this species consists of small benthic fish, crustaceans, polychaetes, gastropods and octopuses. [7] They primarily feed on fish, especially Argentine anchoita ,. [ 12 ] Mean diving depth is almost 25 m (82 ft), and they have been filmed diving as deep as 60 m (200 ft) to forage on the sea floor.
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of medium to large coastal, fish-eating seabirds that includes cormorants and shags. Plumage colouration is varied with the majority having mainly dark plumage, some species being black-and-white and a few being quite colourful. White-breasted cormorant, Phalacrocorax lucidus; Cape cormorant, Phalacrocorax capensis ...