Cormorants
Order: Pelecaniformes. Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Cormorants are medium-to-large aquatic birds, usually with mainly dark plumage and areas of coloured skin on the face. The bill is long, thin, and sharply hooked. Their feet are four-toed and webbed, a distinguishing feature among the Pelecaniformes order.
- Brandt's Cormorant, Phalacrocorax penicillatus
- Neotropic Cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus *
- Double-crested Cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus
- Pelagic Cormorant, Phalacrocorax pelagicus
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