Little Black Cormorant

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When to see the Little Black Cormorant

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

Where to see the Little Black Cormorant

The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Malaysia, France, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.

About the Little Black Cormorant

The little black cormorant 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.

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Easily confused with

Australian Pied CormorantPhalacrocorax variusThe pied cormorant is predominantly black on its back and upper surface of the wings and white on the underside with males weighing approximately 2.2 kg (4.9 lb) and females 1.7 kg (3.7 lb). Indian CormorantPhalacrocorax fuscicollisThis medium-sized bronze brown cormorant is scalloped in black on the upper plumage, lacks a crest and has a small and slightly peaked head with a long narrow bill that ends in a hooked tip. Cape CormorantPhalacrocorax capensisThe Cape cormorant is a blue-black bird with a glossy shine.

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