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Cormorants and shags
 
 
 
 
Order:	Suliformes (formerly Pelecaniformes)
Family: Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants and shags) - 1 out of 1 genus, 11 out of 40 species depicted
Genus:	Phalacrocorax
Species on page
 
Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
 
Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)
 
Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)
 
Long-tailed Cormorant (Phalacrocorax africanus)
 
 
Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
 
 
Black-faced cormorant(Phalacrocorax fuscescens) 
 
Blue-eyed shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps)
 
Australian pied cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
 
Bank cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus)
 
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
 
Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)
 
Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
 
July-ed
Phalacrocorax auritus floridanus 
Double-crested cormorant
Family: Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants and shags)
Flamingo, Everglades National Park
March 25, 2009
Cormorant
Cormorant flying
Look what I found!
Cormorant and catfish
Eye to eye
When your eyes are bigger than your mouth
The tunnnel at the end of the light
Double crested
 
Cormorant
One of these things
Cormorant
Cormorant
 
 
Same place, different day
 
Cormorant feet
 
  
Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)
Cormorant on nest
 
4 eggs
 
  
Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)
Earth bound
 
Two cormorants
 
Preening
 
Sunset silhouette
 
Cormorant feet on lava
 
Cormorant close
 
Flightless
The Galápagos cormorants have beautiful eyes.
  
Other cormorants (for instance, the double crested) 
but not all (eg the crowned cormorant) 
have similarly strikingly colored eyes.
 
Flightless
	
	
	
Flightless on Isabel
 
	
Cormorant with octopus
 
	
	
	
 
Long-tailed (Phalacrocorax africanus)
 
Cormorants at the source
Phalacrocorax africanus - 
Long-tailed Cormorant 
At the source of the Nile, 
Uganda
 
Black-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens)
 
Tasmania, Australia
Black-faced
Departing cormorant
Black-faced cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens) 
Coles Bay
Tasmania, Australia
April 2, 2012
 
Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
 
Japan
Hung out to dry
Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
 
Tokyo, Japan
April 7, 2008
      
Posing
Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
 
Tokyo, Japan
April 7, 2008
      
 
Blue-eyed shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps)
 
A shag among gentoos
Blue-eyed shag
Phalacrocorax atriceps
Port Lockroy
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013
Nested shags
Blue-eyed shag
Phalacrocorax atriceps
Port Lockroy
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013
A shag on the rocks
Phalacrocorax atriceps
Port Lockroy
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013
 
Australian pied cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
 Australian pied cormorant
	
	
Pied
 
	
	
Bank cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus)
Cormorant rocking out
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
The Great!
 
Great flight
 
 
 
 
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Family: Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants and shags)
Cape Cross
Namibia
August 23, 2018
Canon 7D Mark II
 
 
 
 
	
Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)
Neotropical
 
Four cormorants
      
 
  
 
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Last modified: January 1, 2023
 
Created: December 8, 2010
Contact: siegelr@stanford.edu
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