Red-legged Cormorant

Poikilocarbo gaimardi - Cormoran de Gaimard

Cormoran de Gaimard
Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Suliformes

  • Family
    :

    Phalacrocoracidés

  • Genus
    :

    Poikilocarbo

  • Species
    :

    gaimardi

Descriptor

Garnot, 1828

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 76 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 91 cm.
  • Weight
    : -
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Cormoran de Gaimard
adult
Cormoran de Gaimard
juvenile

Red-legged Cormorant (Poikilocarbo gaimardi) is a species of bird in the Phalacrocoracidae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

  • Cormoran de Gaimard,
  • Cormorán chuita,
  • biguá-de-pernas-vermelhas,
  • Buntscharbe,
  • vöröslábú kárókatona,
  • Roodpootaalscholver,
  • Cormorano zamperosse,
  • rödfotad skarv,
  • Rødfotskarv,
  • kormorán sivý,
  • kormorán rudonohý,
  • Perleskarv,
  • harmaamerimetso,
  • corb marí cama-roig,
  • kormoran czerwononogi,
  • Красноногий баклан,
  • サカツラウ,
  • 红腿鸬鹚,
  • rödfotad skarv,
  • 紅腿鸕鷀,

Voice song and call

Cormoran de Gaimard
adult plum. breeding

Habitat

Cormoran de Gaimard
adult plum. breeding

Marine Neritic : Pelagic, Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs, Subtidal Loose Rock/pebble/gravel, Subtidal Sandy, Subtidal Sandy-Mud, Macroalgal/Kelp, Seagrass (Submerged) ; Marine Intertidal : Rocky Shoreline ; Marine Coastal/Supratidal : Sea Cliffs and Rocky Offshore Islands

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

Other sources of interest

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