Pelagic Cormorant (Urile pelagicus)

Other Names (World)
Pelagic Cormorant, Baird's Cormorant, Pelagic Shag

Family
Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants)

Size
66 cm

First Described (Guide)
Pallas, 1811

Range (Guide)

Canada (B) (P), China (mainland), Japan, Mexico, North Korea (B), Russia (Asian), South Korea, Taiwan (China), USA (B).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

Pelagic Cormorant (Urile pelagicus) [XC149497]
by Andrew Spencer from Imperial Beach Pier, San Diego County, California, United States (call)

Pelagic Cormorant (Urile pelagicus) [XC209337]
by Ian Cruickshank from Helliwell Park, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada (call)

Subspecies
Kenyon's Shag (Phalacrocorax kenyoni), described by Siegel-Causey (1991), and previously treated as a species in Collar et al. (1994), is no longer recognised as distinct following Rohwer et al. (2000) who considered it indistinguishable from Pelagic Cormorant (Urile pelagicus).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

pelagicus Pallas, 1811 - North-west Pacific east to southern Alaska.
resplendens Audubon, 1838 - British Columbia to north-western Mexico.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Pelagic Cormorant (Urile pelagicus) - 10 files

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