Little Pied Cormorant

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When to see the Little Pied 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 Pied Cormorant

The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Little Pied Cormorant

The little pied cormorant, little shag or little pied shag is a common species of Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Timor-Leste and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the subantarctic. It is a small short-billed cormorant usually black above and white below with a yellow bill and small crest, although a mostly black white-throated form predominates in New Zealand. Three subspecies are recognised. Until recently, most authorities referred to this species as Phalacrocorax melanoleucos.

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Easily confused with

Little CormorantMicrocarbo nigerThe little cormorant is about 50 centimetres (20 in) long and only slightly smaller than the Indian cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis). Reed CormorantMicrocarbo africanusThis is a small cormorant, 50–55 cm (20–22 in) in overall length with a wingspan of 80–90 cm (31–35 in). Pygmy CormorantMicrocarbo pygmaeusThe pygmy cormorant is a member of the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant) family of seabirds.

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