Pygmy Cormorant

Microcarbo pygmaeus - Cormoran pygmée

Cormoran pygmée
adult plum. breeding
Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Suliformes

  • Family
    :

    Phalacrocoracidés

  • Genus
    :

    Microcarbo

  • Species
    :

    pygmaeus

Descriptor

Pallas, 1773

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 55 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 80 à 90 cm.
  • Weight
    : 565 à 870 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Cormoran pygmée
adult
Cormoran pygmée
First year

Pygmy Cormorant (Microcarbo pygmaeus) is a species of bird in the Phalacrocoracidae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

  • Cormoran pygmée,
  • Cormorán pigmeo,
  • corvo-marinho-pigmeu,
  • Zwergscharbe,
  • kis kárókatona,
  • Dwergaalscholver,
  • Marangone minore,
  • dvärgskarv,
  • Dvergskarv,
  • kormorán malý,
  • kormorán malý,
  • Dværgskarv,
  • pikkumerimetso,
  • corb marí pigmeu,
  • Dvergskarfur,
  • kormoran mały,
  • mazais jūras krauklis,
  • pritlikavi kormoran,
  • Малый баклан,
  • コビトウ,
  • 侏鸬鹚,
  • 侏鸕鷀,

Voice song and cries

Cormoran pygmée
adult plum. breeding

Habitat

Cormoran pygmée
adult

Forest : Temperate ; Shrubland : Temperate ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls), Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha), Permanent Inland Deltas ; Marine Coastal/Supratidal : Coastal Freshwater Lakes ; Artificial/Aquatic and Marine : Water Storage Areas (over 8ha), Aquaculture Ponds

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

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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