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Pied Cormorant, Gold Coast, Australia
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Pied Cormorant in Te Pukatea Bay in Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand.
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Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius) spreading its wings at Hacking River, Royal National Park, Australia.
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Pied Cormorant, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia
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Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius). Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.
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PIED CORMORANT FACTS |
Description
Upper body black, underparts white. Bill pale yellow-brown. Eye ring blue. Black feathers above the legs. Body up to 75 cm long.
Pied Cormorants nest in colonies. They dive under water to catch fish near the sea bottom and sometimes also eat crustaceans and molluscs.
Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Open freshwater wetlands, swamps and coastal marine bays.
Food
Carnivore
Range
New Zealand. Throughout Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, eastern South Australia and coastal Northern Territory, Western Austrlalia and South Australia.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Pelecaniformes | | Family: | Phalacrocoracidae | | Genus: | Phalacrocorax | | Species: | varius | | Common Name: | Pied Cormorant |
Relatives in same Genus
Great Cormorant (P. carbo)
Black-faced Cormorant (P. fuscescens)
Little Pied Cormorant (P. melanoleucos)
Little Black Cormorant (P. sulcirostris)
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