Flightless cormorant

Phalacrocorax harrisi

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals

Phylum Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates

Class Aves, Birds, oiseaux

Order Suliformes – Cormorants, cormorans

Family Phalacrocoracidae Reichenbach, 1849 – Cormorants, Shags

Genus Phalacrocorax Brisson, 1760 – Cormorants

Species Phalacrocorax harrisi Rothschild, 1898 – Flightless Cormorant

STATUS: VULNERABLE

Are Vulnerable to Extinction; they are facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.” It is estimated that there are only about 2000 mature individuals in the Galapagos Islands’; they can only be found in the Galapagos Islands of Isabela and Fernandina. The Galapagos Flightless Cormorants are the only cormorants that can’t fly; their wings are not waterproof, but their feathers are thicker than the flying cormorants; they are the heaviest (up to 11 pound) and the largest of all cormorants (up to 40 inches), they dive in order to catch their food (octopus, rockfish and eel).

References

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Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, September 25). Flightless cormorant. Wikipedia. Retrieved February 10, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flightless_cormorant
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