Double-crested Cormorant

Nannopterum auritum - Cormoran à aigrettes

Cormoran à aigrettes
Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Suliformes

  • Family
    :

    Phalacrocoracidés

  • Genus
    :

    Nannopterum

  • Species
    :

    auritum

Descriptor

Lesson, RP, 1831

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 91 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 137 cm.
  • Weight
    : 1200 à 2500 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Cormoran à aigrettes
adult plum. breeding
Cormoran à aigrettes
adult plum. post breeding

Double-crested Cormorant (Nannopterum auritum) is a species of bird in the Phalacrocoracidae family.

Subspecific information 5 subspecies

  • Nannopterum auritum auritum (c and e Canada, ne USA)
  • Nannopterum auritum cincinatum ()
  • Nannopterum auritum albociliatum ()
  • Nannopterum auritum floridanum ()
  • Nannopterum auritum heuretum ()

Foreign names

  • Cormoran à aigrettes,
  • Cormorán orejudo,
  • corvo-marinho-de-orelhas,
  • Ohrenscharbe,
  • füles kárókatona,
  • Geoorde Aalscholver,
  • Cormorano orecchiuto,
  • öronskarv,
  • Totoppskarv,
  • kormorán ušatý,
  • kormorán ušatý,
  • Øreskarv,
  • amerikanmerimetso,
  • corb marí orellut,
  • Skerjaskarfur,
  • kormoran rogaty,
  • ragainais ūdenis,
  • zlatogrli kormoran,
  • Ушастый баклан,
  • ミミヒメウ,
  • 角鸬鹚,
  • öronskarv,
  • 雙冠鸕鷀,

Voice song and call

Cormoran à aigrettes
adult

Habitat

Cormoran à aigrettes
immature

Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha) ; Marine Neritic : Pelagic, Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs, Subtidal Loose Rock/pebble/gravel, Subtidal Sandy, Subtidal Sandy-Mud, Macroalgal/Kelp, Seagrass (Submerged)

Geographic range

Distribution

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

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