Brandt's Cormorant

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When to see the Brandt's Cormorant

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Brandt's Cormorant

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Brandt's Cormorant

Brandt's cormorant 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. Its specific name, penicillatus is Latin for a painter's brush, in reference to white plumes on its neck and back during the early breeding season. The common name honors the German naturalist Johann Friedrich von Brandt of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, who described the species from specimens collected on expeditions to the Pacific during the early 19th century.

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Easily confused with

Pelagic CormorantUrile pelagicusThis is a smallish cormorant which measures 25 to 35 in (64 to 89 cm) in length, with a wingspan of about 3.3 ft (1.0 m) and a weight of 52–86 oz (1,500–2,400 g) when fully grown. Red-faced CormorantUrile urileThe adult bird has glossy plumage that is a deep greenish blue in color, becoming purplish or bronze on the back and sides.

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