Cormorants, Shags
Brandt's Cormorant
Urile penicillatus
The Brandt's Cormorant (Urile penicillatus) is a 2.2 kg ocean-going bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Cormorants, Shags
- Order
- Suliformes
- Weight
- 2.2 kg
- Habitat
- Marine
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 3
Recorded in United States, Canada, Mexico.
Where to see it: Reifel Bird Sanctuary (Canada).
Photo: (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist