Cormorants
Order: Pelecaniformes. Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Cormorants are medium-to-large aquatic birds, usually with mainly dark plumage and areas of colored 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. Four species occur in Tasmania, with a fifth as a vagrant.
- Little Pied Cormorant, Microcarbo melanoleucos
- Great Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo
- Little Black Cormorant, Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
- Pied Cormorant, Phalacrocorax varius (V)
- Black-faced Cormorant, Phalacrocorax fuscescens
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Tasmania