Cormorants, Shags
Indian Cormorant
Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
The Indian cormorant or Indian shag (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis) is a member of the cormorant family. It is found mainly along the inland waters of the Indian Subcontinent but extending west to Sind and east to Thailand and Cambodia. It is a gregarious species that can be easily distinguished from the similar sized little cormorant by its blue eye, small head with a sloping forehead and a long narrow bill ending in a hooked tip.
- Family
- Cormorants, Shags
- Order
- Suliformes
- Weight
- 706 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 6
Photo: shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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