Little Black Cormorant

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Little Black Cormorant

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Phalacrocorax
Species: P. sulcirostris
Binomial name
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
(Brandt, 1837)

The Little Black Cormorant, Phalacrocorax sulcirostris, is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It is common in smaller rivers and lakes throughout most areas of Australia. It is around sixty centimetres long, and is all black with blue-green eyes.

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