Phalacrocorax is a genus of fish-eating birds in the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae. Members of this genus are sometimes informally known as the Old World cormorants, though their distribution is
2021 05 05 Phalacrocorax carbo carbo, Killingworth Lake, Northumberland 1 1
Juvenile Phalacrocorax carbo with extensive but diffuse white on the underparts. The other species show broadly similar juvenile plumage.
The spotted shag or pārekareka is a species of cormorant endemic to New Zealand. Though originally classified as Phalacrocorax punctatus, it is sufficiently different in appearance from typical member
Phalacrocorax
…Arabian Peninsula. Size: Habitat: Diet: VU Pitt shag or Featherstone's shag Phalacrocorax featherstoni Buller, 1873 Pitt Island. Size: Habitat: Diet: EN Spotted shag Phalacrocorax punctatus (Sparrman, 1786) Two subspecies: P. p. punctatus P. p. oliveri New Zealand. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Black-faced cormorant…
Juvenile, note spots on back and wings
In flight, in breeding plumage (note the double crests)
Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand