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Little Cormorant
Microcarbo niger · Family Phalacrocoracidae
Microcarbo niger
Family Phalacrocoracidae
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 764,751
- Countries and territories with records
- 25
About this species
This species has 764,751 occurrence records from 25 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (84.5%), Thailand (7%), Sri Lanka (3.8%), Bangladesh (1.5%) and Cambodia (1.1%); together they account for 97.9% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Microcarbo niger combines the genus name Microcarbo with the species epithet niger. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Microcarbo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Microcarbo melanoleucos, Microcarbo africanus and Microcarbo pygmaeus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 30 species of the family Phalacrocoracidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Nannopterum auritum. Its record count is close to the family average (821,390). The family Phalacrocoracidae belongs to the order Suliformes, which has 48 species in the Warbla app catalog.