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This medium-sized bronze brown cormorant is scalloped in black on the upper plumage, lacks a crest and has a small and slightly peaked head with a long narrow bill that ends in a hooked tip. The eyes are blue and it has bare yellow facial skin during the non-breeding season. Breeding birds have a
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The breeding season is July to
February but depends on rainfall and water conditions. In northern India, they breed from July to February and in Sri Lanka, between November and February. The nest is a platform of twigs placed in the forks of partially submerged trees or of those growing on the
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This cormorant fishes gregariously in inland rivers or large wetlands of peninsular India and the northern part of Sri Lanka. It also occurs in estuaries and mangroves but not on the open coast. They breed very locally in mixed species breeding colonies. They extend north-east to
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islands. The nests are similar to those of other Indian cormorants, storks or waterbirds in dense colonies, often with several tiers of nests. The usual clutch is three to five eggs which are bluish green and with a chalky surface.
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The Indian cormorant makes short dives to capture the fish and a group will often fish communally, forming a broad front to drive fish into a corner.
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Das, S.N.; Ghazi, R.R. (2011). "Echinostoma valentini sp.n. (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) from a bird
Phalacrocorax fuscicollis in Sindh, Pakistan".
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short white ear tuft. In some plumages it has a white throat but the white is restricted below the gape unlike in the much larger
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by its blue eyes, small head with a sloping forehead and a long narrow bill ending in a hooked tip.
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Kennedy, M.; Seneviratne, S.S.; Rawlence, N.J.; Ratnayake, S.; Spencer, H.G. (2019).
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Kannan, V; R Manakadan; P Rao; KK Mohapatra; S Sivakumar; V Santharam (2008).
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An echinostomatid parasite has been described from Sindh from this species.
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695:(2nd ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp. 39–41.
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629:"The phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic Indian Cormorant,
708:"An annotated list of the birds of Cambodia from 1859 to 1970"
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study published in 2019 found that the Indian cormorant was
555:. Vol. 13, Part 1. London: Kearsley et al. p. 91.
673:. Smithsonian Institution & Lynx Edicions. p. 52.
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family. It is found mainly along the inland waters of the
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Handbook of the birds of India and
Pakistan. Volume 1
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602:"Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, darters, cormorants"
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671:Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Volume 2
552:General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History
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779:Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
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569:The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names
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572:. London: Christopher Helm. p. 167.
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421:475–510 mm (18.7–20.1 in)
407:510–535 mm (20.1–21.1 in)
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239:but extends west to Sind and east to
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1531:(imperial cormorant, blue-eyed shag)
450:138–142 mm (5.4–5.6 in)
278:meaning "dusky" or "brown" with the
271:. The specific epithet combines the
267:and given the current binomial name
1904:IUCN Red List least concern species
507:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
669:Rasmussen PC; JC Anderton (2005).
476:47–52 mm (1.9–2.0 in)
464:94–96 mm (3.7–3.8 in)
433:54–58 mm (2.1–2.3 in)
285:meaning "-necked". The species is
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38:Non-breeding bird with blue iris
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748:"Occurrence of the Indian Shag
496:BirdLife International (2018).
263:in 1826 by English naturalist
1:
930:Christmas Island frigatebird
706:Thomas WW; CM Poole (2003).
798:Proceedings of Parasitology
650:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.019
1950:
566:Jobling, James A. (2010).
1881:Phalacrocorax-fuscicollis
1623:Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
1593:Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
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721:: 103–127. Archived from
691:Ali S; SD Ripley (1978).
631:Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
514:: e.T22696779A132592646.
500:Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
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269:Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
259:The Indian cormorant was
228:Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
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75:Scientific classification
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16:Species of bird from Asia
1412:Double-crested cormorant
1307:White-breasted cormorant
756:J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc
329:Distribution and habitat
1929:Birds described in 1826
1924:Birds of Southeast Asia
1355:(long-tailed cormorant)
920:Magnificent frigatebird
543:Stephens, James Francis
1484:(Magellanic cormorant)
1314:(Temminck's cormorant)
1287:Little black cormorant
849:(Phalacrocoraciformes)
746:Sashikumar, C (1991).
600:, eds. (August 2022).
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362:In wing-drying posture
306:little black cormorant
298:molecular phylogenetic
265:James Francis Stephens
1824:Paleobiology Database
1493:New Zealand king shag
1348:Little pied cormorant
1282:Black-faced cormorant
925:Ascension frigatebird
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231:) is a member of the
1462:Red-legged cormorant
1422:Flightless cormorant
1392:Spectacled cormorant
1212:: Phalacrocoracidae)
1116:: Anhingidae ·
867:: Fregatidae ·
633:(Phalacrocoracidae)"
1919:Birds of South Asia
1417:Neotropic cormorant
1384:Red-faced cormorant
1183:Australasian darter
1087:Australasian gannet
963:Gannets and boobies
752:Stephens in Kerala"
237:Indian Subcontinent
166:P. fuscicollis
45:Conservation status
1560:South Georgia shag
1495:(rough-faced shag)
1374:Brandt's cormorant
1312:Japanese cormorant
940:Lesser frigatebird
596:; Donsker, David;
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261:formally described
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1550:Kerguelen shag
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1540:Crozet shag
1524:Bounty shag
1403:Nannopterum
1082:Cape gannet
1039:Brown booby
1029:Nazca booby
643:: 227–232.
612:21 November
594:Gill, Frank
527:12 November
316:Description
223:Indian shag
1898:Categories
1876:Xeno-canto
1504:Otago shag
1473:Leucocarbo
1324:Microcarbo
1206:Cormorants
969:: Sulidae)
847:Suliformes
732:2011-08-14
483:References
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132:Suliformes
1482:Rock shag
1267:Pitt shag
762:(3): 442.
354:Behaviour
287:monotypic
233:cormorant
208:Range of
160:Species:
98:Kingdom:
92:Eukaryota
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1699:45516071
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1645:BirdLife
1602:Wikidata
1049:Papasula
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545:(1826).
348:Cambodia
340:Thailand
310:Pliocene
255:Taxonomy
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241:Thailand
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112:Chordata
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102:Animalia
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65:IUCN 3.1
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1777:2488669
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1632:Avibase
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1433:Gulosus
1234:Species
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1159:Anhinga
1145:Species
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1110:Darters
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396:Length
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276:fuscus
193:, 1826
1863:WoRMS
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1842:84100
1790:73422
1733:IRMNG
1681:eBird
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1365:Urile
1223:Genus
1134:Genus
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1068:Morus
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336:Assam
289:: no
273:Latin
1798:OBIS
1772:NCBI
1759:IUCN
1746:ITIS
1725:4264
1707:GBIF
1005:Sula
614:2022
574:ISBN
529:2021
512:2018
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