Neotropic Cormorant Images

Neotropic Cormorant Images, Facts and Information:

Nannopterum brasilianum used to be Phalacrocorax brasilianus

• Neotropic Cormorants are small, dark waterbirds with long tail, webbed feet, long necks, small heads and bright green to aquamarine colored eyes. They have yellow-gray hooked bills with a yellow “V” shaped gular pouch edged in white.
• Some Neotropic Cormorants are year round residents in their range, others are migratory. They can be found in many southern U.S. states, much of Mexico and Cuba. They seem to be expanding their range because they are spreading northward. Neotropic Cormorants prefer saltwater inlets and bays and freshwater ponds and lakes.
• Neotropic Cormorants feed on fish, frogs, and other aquatic organisms. They are the only cormorants know to plunge dive for prey.
• Neotropic Cormorants lay 2 to 6 eggs which hatch in 23 to 26 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous, colonial nesters.

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