Cormorants, Shags
Crowned Cormorant
Microcarbo coronatus
The Crowned Cormorant (Microcarbo coronatus) is a 762 g ocean-going bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Cormorants, Shags
- Order
- Suliformes
- Weight
- 762 g
- Habitat
- Marine
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 2
Recorded in South Africa, Namibia.
Where to see it: Strandfontein WTP (South Africa).
Photo: (c) Paul Hoekman, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist