#1294 · 🐦 birds

Neotropic Cormorant

🇳🇱 Bigua-aalscholver ·Nannopterum brasilianum

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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1. © Kala Murphy King · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Daniel Onea · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Nicole Neira Mena · CC BY-NC 4.0
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6. © Vladimir Rebellón Palmezano · CC BY 4.0
7. © Don Marsille · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Don Loarie · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. © Patricio Cowper Coles · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The neotropic cormorant or olivaceous cormorant ( Nannopterum brasilianum ) is a medium-sized cormorant found throughout the American tropics and subtropics, from the middle Rio Grande and the Gulf and Californian coasts of the United States south through Mexico and Central America to southern South America, where it is called by the Indian name of biguá . It also breeds on the Bahamas, Cuba and Trinidad. It can be found both at coasts (including some mangrove areas) and on...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 70,853iNaturalist observations
weight 42 gadult, up to
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.
70,853 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 42 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).