Little Pied Cormorant at Molonglo Valley, ACT
Identification history
| Microcarbo melanoleucos | 18 Sep 2018 | natureguy | ||
| Microcarbo melanoleucos | 17 Sep 2018 | BIrdsinCanberra |
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User's notes
I did see three Little Pied Cormorants perched on a dead tree standing at the lake's edge. Before I could get my camera in position two of them flew off but the remaining one stayed put for a little while. From their high position in a tree at that time of day and their skittish behaviour, I wonder if some fisherman may be frightening them off as the birds may be going after the bait or even the fish being caught. When the cormorants did fly off they went to some more trees across the small bay where I was. One of them later returned to the original tree but the moment I showed interest in it, the bird took to the wing again, and was joined by a second cormorant. They then flew off further down the lake.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.087567-35.287298
- Altitude 560.0m
- Maps Lake Burley Griffin West
- Places Molonglo Valley, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 9 Sep 2018 08:07 AM Recorded on
- BIrdsinCanberra Recorded by
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Collections
Birds Water birds Colonial nesters (Herons, Cormorants, etc) BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Microcarbo melanoleucos Scientific name
- Little Pied Cormorant Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 994.9m Recorded at altitude
- 615 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
