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 LC    Long-tailed Cormorant* Id (Atlas):
    Microcarbo africanus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Long-tailed Cormorant, Reed Cormorant

Family
Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants)

Size
58 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali (B), Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sâo Tomé e Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of] (B), Togo, Uganda (B), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Djibouti, Egypt (E) (B), Seychelles.

Population
Estimated population is 200,000 - 1,200,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Mainly fish. Also, sometimes frogs, aquatic invertebrates, small birds.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

 
Reed Cormorant (Microcarbo africanus) [XC860402]
     by id from Jabi Lake, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria (alarm call)

 
Reed Cormorant (Microcarbo africanus) [XC317237]
     by Sun Madakan from Parc forestier de Hann, Dakar, Senegal (call)

Subspecies
Often includes Phalacrocorax coronatus as a subspecies.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • africanus (Gmelin, 1789)   -  Africa south of Sahara.
  • pictilis (Bangs, 1918)   -  Madagascar.



References
See References.


Files:
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