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Australian Pied Cormorant
Phalacrocorax varius · Family Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax varius
Family Phalacrocoracidae
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 374,528
- Countries and territories with records
- 5
About this species
This species has 374,528 occurrence records from 5 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (76%) and New Zealand (24%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.26% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Phalacrocorax varius combines the genus name Phalacrocorax with the species epithet varius. 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 fuscicollis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 30 species of the family Phalacrocoracidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Nannopterum auritum. Its record count is 45.6% of the family average (821,390). The family Phalacrocoracidae belongs to the order Suliformes, which has 48 species in the Warbla app catalog.