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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Birds
  5. Gannets, Cormorants, and Allies
  6. Cormorants and Shags

family

Cormorants and Shags

Phalacrocoracidae

Includes
6 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • North Pacific Cormorants 3 native
  • American Cormorants 2 native
  • Typical Cormorants and Shags 1 native
  • Gulosus
  • Micro-Cormorants

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native cormorants and shags All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum 211,190 observations
  • Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo 173,506 observations
  • Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum 69,003 observations
  • Brandt's Cormorant Urile penicillatus 23,193 observations
  • Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus 17,937 observations
  • Red-faced Cormorant Urile urile 521 observations

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