Little Cormorant

Microcarbo niger - Cormoran de Vieillot

Cormoran de Vieillot
Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Suliformes

  • Family
    :

    Phalacrocoracidés

  • Genus
    :

    Microcarbo

  • Species
    :

    niger

Descriptor

Vieillot, 1817

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 56 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 90 cm.
  • Weight
    : 360 à 525 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Cormoran de Vieillot
adult plum. breeding
Cormoran de Vieillot
adult plum. post breeding

Little Cormorant (Microcarbo niger) is a species of bird in the Phalacrocoracidae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

  • Cormoran de Vieillot,
  • Cormorán de Java,
  • corvo-marinho-pequeno-oriental,
  • Kleinscharbe,
  • fekete törpekormorán,
  • Indische Dwergaalscholver,
  • Cormorano minuto,
  • småskarv,
  • Orientdvergskarv,
  • kormorán močiarny,
  • kormorán menší,
  • Javaskarv,
  • jaavanmerimetso,
  • corb marí de Vieillot,
  • kormoran skromny,
  • mazais ūdenis,
  • Яванский баклан,
  • Pecuk-padi kecil,
  • アジアコビトウ,
  • 黑颈鸬鹚,
  • นกกาน้ำเล็ก,
  • 黑頸鸕鷀〔小鸕鷀〕,

Habitat

Cormoran de Vieillot
immature

Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls), Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands, Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha), Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha) ; Artificial/Aquatic and Marine : Seasonally Flooded Agricultural Land, Canals and Drainage Channels, Ditches

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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