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Indian Cormorant
Phalacrocorax fuscicollis · Family Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
Family Phalacrocoracidae
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 220,353
- Countries and territories with records
- 14
About this species
This species has 220,353 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (83.5%), Sri Lanka (8.1%), Thailand (6.5%) and Cambodia (1.5%); together they account for 99.5% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Phalacrocorax fuscicollis combines the genus name Phalacrocorax with the species epithet fuscicollis. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Phalacrocorax; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Phalacrocorax carbo, Phalacrocorax sulcirostris and Phalacrocorax varius.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 30 species of the family Phalacrocoracidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Nannopterum auritum. Its record count is 26.8% of the family average (821,390). The family Phalacrocoracidae belongs to the order Suliformes, which has 48 species in the Warbla app catalog.