Pygmy Cormorant - Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology

The Pygmy Cormorants like the pools with plenty of vegetation, lakes and river deltas. They void the mountainous and cold and dry areas. Loves rice fields or other flooded areas where can be found shrubs and tree. During winter habituate also waters with higher salinity, in estuaries or on barrier lakes. There are birds who can live solitary or in groups and they are adapted somehow to human incidence. They build the nest from sticks and reed in dense vegetation, in trees, shrubs, willows but sporadically in reed (on small floating islets). At the end of May, beginning of June, both parents incubate for 27–30 days, and nestlings become independent after 70 days. The young are fed by they parents with small fish and other aquatic animals (Kiss & Rekasi, 2002). Frequently shares the same type of habitat with egrets, herons and the spoonbill.