Cormorants, Shags

Pygmy Cormorant

Microcarbo pygmaeus

The Pygmy Cormorant (Microcarbo pygmaeus) is a 676 g wetland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.

Family

Cormorants, Shags

Order

Suliformes

Weight

676 g

Habitat

Wetland

Diet

Vertebrates, fish and carrion

Migration

Partial migrant

Countries recorded

38

Recorded in Israel, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Netherlands, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Czechia, Montenegro, Albania, Azerbaijan, Iran, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Armenia, Russia, Georgia, Denmark, Ukraine, Poland, Bosnia and Herz., France, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, Sweden, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, XK, Spain, Moldova.

Where to see it: Dorćolski kej · combined eastern and western part, IBA Ušće Save u Dunav (Serbia); Skadar Lake National Park (please use more-precise locations) (Montenegro); PP Vransko jezero · Boardwalk (Croatia); Grand Park of Tirana (Albania); Kurtlinskoye Reservoir and vicinity (Turkmenistan).

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