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Pygmy Cormorant
Microcarbo pygmaeus · Family Phalacrocoracidae
Microcarbo pygmaeus
Family Phalacrocoracidae
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 153,119
- Countries and territories with records
- 64
About this species
This species has 153,119 occurrence records from 64 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (16.6%), Italy (14.3%), Türkiye (12.9%), Greece (8.3%) and Bulgaria (8%); together they account for 60.1% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 0.38% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Microcarbo pygmaeus combines the genus name Microcarbo with the species epithet pygmaeus. 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 niger and Microcarbo africanus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 30 species of the family Phalacrocoracidae. This species ranks 13th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Nannopterum auritum. Its record count is 18.6% of the family average (821,390). The family Phalacrocoracidae belongs to the order Suliformes, which has 48 species in the Warbla app catalog.