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Little pied cormorant
Microcarbo melanoleucos · Family Phalacrocoracidae
Microcarbo melanoleucos
Family Phalacrocoracidae
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,042,332
- Countries and territories with records
- 17
About this species
This species has 1,042,332 occurrence records from 17 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (89.8%) and New Zealand (9.4%); together they account for 99.2% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.86% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Microcarbo melanoleucos combines the genus name Microcarbo with the species epithet melanoleucos. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Microcarbo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Microcarbo niger, Microcarbo africanus and Microcarbo pygmaeus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 30 species of the family Phalacrocoracidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Nannopterum auritum. Its record count is 1.3 times the family average (821,390). The family Phalacrocoracidae belongs to the order Suliformes, which has 48 species in the Warbla app catalog.