#1460 · 🐦 birds

Little Black Cormorant

🇳🇱 Zwarte Aalscholver ·Phalacrocorax sulcirostris

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The little black cormorant ( Phalacrocorax sulcirostris ) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It is common in smaller rivers and lakes throughout most areas of Australia and northern New Zealand, where it is known as the little black shag . It is around sixty centimetres long, and is all black with blue-green eyes.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 17,939iNaturalist observations
weight 1.1 kgadult, 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.
17,939 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs up to about 1.1 kg.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt in 1837 (189 years ago).