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Cormorants and shags
Order: Suliformes (formerly Pelecaniformes)
Family: Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants and shags) - 1 out of 1 genus, 11 out of 40 species depicted
Genus: Phalacrocorax
Species on page
Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
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Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)
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Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)
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Long-tailed Cormorant (Phalacrocorax africanus)
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Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
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Black-faced cormorant(Phalacrocorax fuscescens)
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Blue-eyed shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps)
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Australian pied cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
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Bank cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus)
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Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
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Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)
Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
July-ed
Phalacrocorax auritus floridanus
Double-crested cormorant
Family: Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants and shags)
Flamingo, Everglades National Park
March 25, 2009
Cormorant
Cormorant flying
Look what I found!
Cormorant and catfish
Eye to eye
When your eyes are bigger than your mouth
The tunnnel at the end of the light
Double crested
Cormorant
One of these things
Cormorant
Cormorant
Same place, different day
Cormorant feet
Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)
Cormorant on nest
4 eggs
Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)
Earth bound
Two cormorants
Preening
Sunset silhouette
Cormorant feet on lava
Cormorant close
Flightless
The Galápagos cormorants have beautiful eyes.
Other cormorants (for instance, the double crested)
but not all (eg the crowned cormorant)
have similarly strikingly colored eyes.
Flightless
Long-tailed (Phalacrocorax africanus)
Cormorants at the source
Phalacrocorax africanus -
Long-tailed Cormorant
At the source of the Nile,
Uganda
Black-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens)
Tasmania, Australia
Black-faced
Departing cormorant
Black-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens)
Coles Bay
Tasmania, Australia
April 2, 2012
Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
Japan
Hung out to dry
Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
Tokyo, Japan
April 7, 2008
Posing
Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
Tokyo, Japan
April 7, 2008
Blue-eyed shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps)
A shag among gentoos
Blue-eyed shag
Phalacrocorax atriceps
Port Lockroy
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013
Nested shags
Blue-eyed shag
Phalacrocorax atriceps
Port Lockroy
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013
A shag on the rocks
Phalacrocorax atriceps
Port Lockroy
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013
Australian pied cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
Australian pied cormorant
Pied
Bank cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus)
Cormorant rocking out
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
The Great!
Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)
Neotropical
Four cormorants
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Last modified: January 1, 2023
Created: December 8, 2010
Contact: siegelr@stanford.edu
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