#1344 · 🐦 birds

Little Pied Cormorant

🇳🇱 Kleine Bonte Aalscholver ·Microcarbo melanoleucos

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The little pied cormorant , little shag or kawaupaka ( Microcarbo melanoleucos ) is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the subantarctic. It is a small short-billed cormorant usually black above and white below with a yellow bill and small crest, although a mostly black white-throated form predominates in New Zealand. Three subspecies are...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 36,544iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
36,544 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1817 (209 years ago).