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Lesser Cormorants
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Lesser Cormorants

Microcarbo

Microcarbo is a genus of fish-eating birds, known as cormorants, of the family Phalacrocoracidae. The genus was formerly subsumed within Phalacrocorax.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Little Pied Cormorant

speciesMicrocarbo melanoleucos

Little Cormorant

speciesMicrocarbo niger

Reed Cormorant

speciesMicrocarbo africanus

Pygmy Cormorant

speciesMicrocarbo pygmaeus

Crowned Cormorant

speciesMicrocarbo coronatus

Serventys' Cormorant

speciesMicrocarbo serventyorum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 370634.