Little Black Cormorant

Little Black Cormorant

Taxobox
name = Little Black Cormorant
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Pelecaniformes
familia = Phalacrocoracidae
genus = "Phalacrocorax"
species = "P. sulcirostris"
binomial = "Phalacrocorax sulcirostris"
binomial_authority = (Brandt, 1837)

The Little Black Cormorant, "Phalacrocorax sulcirostris", 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. It is around sixty centimetres long, and is all black with blue-green eyes.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern


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