Pygmy cormorant – Microcarbo pygmaeus – it is a small resident/migratory Eurasian cormorant of Type – seabird, Family Phalacrocoracidae and Order Suliformes. It is native to SE Europe and SW Asia, in a complex pattern of widely separated areas of summer breeding, wintering and resident areas, see the link – Sounds & Maps – below. In the AWB Region it is found in Turkey, S Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, S Levant, Kuwait and Cyprus, and is largely freshwater orientated.
Type - seabird - builds nests in dense vegetation, trees, reeds, Typical Habitat - large well vegetated wetlands, swamps rice fields, deltas Order: Suliformes Family: Phalacrocoracidae Genus: Microcarbo Species - Microcarbo pygmaeus Pygmy cormorant - Species - ebird.org Pygmy cormorant - Species sheet - wikipedia.org Pygmy cormorant - Birds - pygmycormorant.com Pygmy cormorant - Database - avibase Pygmy cormorant - Sounds & Maps - xeno-canto.org Additional Material... Pygmy cormorant - Images - google.com Pygmy cormorant - Video - youtube.com Pygmy cormorant - Datazone - birdlife.org