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Little Black Cormorant
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris · Family Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
Family Phalacrocoracidae
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 688,980
- Countries and territories with records
- 19
About this species
This species has 688,980 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (95.5%) and New Zealand (3.5%); together they account for 99.1% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.6% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Phalacrocorax sulcirostris combines the genus name Phalacrocorax with the species epithet sulcirostris. 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 varius and Phalacrocorax fuscicollis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 30 species of the family Phalacrocoracidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Nannopterum auritum. Its record count is 83.9% of the family average (821,390). The family Phalacrocoracidae belongs to the order Suliformes, which has 48 species in the Warbla app catalog.