Little Pied Cormorant
Microcarbo melanoleucos
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The little pied cormorant, little shag or little pied shag is a common species of Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Timor-Leste 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 recognised. Until recently, most authorities referred to this species as Phalacrocorax melanoleucos.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- Genus
- Microcarbo