Little pied cormorant / Australische Zwergscharbe (Microcarbo melanoleucos)

Wikipedia: Little pied cormorant Source: WIKIPEDIA 1200px-Microcarbo_melanoleucos_-_Royal_National_Park.jpg

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Microcarbo (Microcarbo); Family Cormorants and shags (Phalacrocoracidae)
General: The little pied cormorant, little shag or kawaupaka (Microcarbo melanoleucos) is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, 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. [more]