Microcarbo melanoleucos
Little Pied Cormorant at Aranda, ACT
Identify this sighting
| Microcarbo melanoleucos | natureguy | 10 May 2020 | |
| Microcarbo melanoleucos | JonSteinbeck | 9 May 2020 |
Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.
User's notes
This Little Pied Cormorant may have been the same bird I initially saw on a very small dam in the south-east corner of Aranda Bushland Reserve. Unfortunately, as soon as the bird saw me it took off. I went off to take some more photographs but coincidentally, as I was passing the dam again, this cormorant spiralled in descent as if to land. I prepared to take a photograph of if on the dam but it saw me and awkwardly climbed back up, where it circled at least twice around the dam before flying off to the south-west, the rough direction of Lake Burley Griffin. The dam I saw it on is not large and I assume cannot be that deep. It does not seem to be much life in it either.
Be the first to comment
Location information
- Coordinates 149.085782-35.275518
- Altitude 607.5m
- Maps Aranda Bushland
- Places Aranda, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Apr 2020 09:10 AM Recorded on
- JonSteinbeck Recorded by
Collections
- BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Microcarbo melanoleucos Colonial nesters (Herons, Cormorants, etc) Water birds Birds
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
-
Synonyms
Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Seasonal activity
-
Nesting site
JFMAMJJASOND