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Little Pied Cormorant hanging out to dry, Mt-Coot-tha botanic gardens, Brisbane.
Photograph by ozwildlife. Some rights reserved.
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Gold Coast, Australia
Photograph 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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BIRD FACTS
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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
Environment
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
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Pelecaniformes | | Family: | Phalacrocoracidae | | Genus: | Phalacrocorax | | Species: | melanoleucos | | Common Name: | Little Pied Cormorant |
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