#1407 · 🐦 birds

Brandt's Cormorant

🇳🇱 Brandts Aalscholver ·Urile penicillatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

Brandt's cormorant ( Urile penicillatus ) is a strictly marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabits the Pacific coast of North America. It ranges, in the summer, from Alaska to the Gulf of California, but the population north of Vancouver Island migrates south during the winter. Its specific name, penicillatus is Latin for a painter's brush (pencil of hairs), in reference to white plumes on its neck and back during the early breeding season. The...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 24,059iNaturalist 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).