Cormorants, Shags

Flightless Cormorant

Nannopterum harrisi

The Flightless Cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi) is a 3.0 kg ocean-going bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It stays put all year.

Family

Cormorants, Shags

Order

Suliformes

Weight

3.0 kg

Habitat

Marine

Diet

Vertebrates, fish and carrion

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

1

Recorded in Ecuador.

Photo: (c) Brian Gratwicke, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist