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Charlie Fleming | profile | all galleries >> Birds of the world in Taxonomic order. Species count to December 2023 is 980 >> Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)

Taken in the Galapagos Islands 1972.
The flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi), also known as the Galapagos cormorant, is a cormorant endemic to the Galapagos Islands, and an example of the highly unusual fauna there. It is unique in that it is the only known cormorant that has lost the ability to fly. Once it was placed in its own genus, Nannopterum or Compsohalieus, although current taxonomy places it in the genus with most of the other cormorants, Phalacrocorax.[2]
Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)
Flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)