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Little Pied Cormorant hanging out to dry, Mt-Coot-tha botanic gardens, Brisbane.
Image by ozwildlife - Some rights reserved.
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Little Pied Cormorant
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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Little Pied Cormorant drying off.
Image by Nrg8000 - License: Public Domain. (view image details)
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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Little Pied Cormorant is black above and white below. The face is dusky and, in adult birds, the white of the underside extends to above the eye. Immature birds resemble the adults except there is no white above the eye.
Size
58cm
Habitat
Open waterways, coast, inland streams, lakes and dams
Food
fish, crustaceans caught underwater, also insects.
Breeding
nest is a flat platform of sticks, lined with leaves, usually built in a tree. Lays 3-4 eggs.
Range
throughout Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Pelecaniformes | | Family: | Phalacrocoracidae | | Genus: | Phalacrocorax | | Species: | melanoleucos | | Common Name: | Little Pied Cormorant |
Relatives in same Genus
Great Cormorant (P. carbo)
Black-faced Cormorant (P. fuscescens)
Little Black Cormorant (P. sulcirostris)
Pied Cormorant (P. varius)
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