Pygmy Cormorant

When to see the Pygmy Cormorant

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

Where to see the Pygmy Cormorant

The map shades 46 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 Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Lebanon.

About the Pygmy Cormorant

The pygmy cormorant is a member of the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant) family of seabirds. It breeds in south-eastern Europe and south-western Asia. It is partially migratory, with northern populations wintering further south, mostly within its breeding range. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Crowned CormorantMicrocarbo coronatusThe crowned cormorant is 50–55 cm in length. 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). Little CormorantMicrocarbo nigerThe little cormorant is about 50 centimetres (20 in) long and only slightly smaller than the Indian cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis).