PHALACROCORACIDAE

NEOTROPIC CORMORANT: Phalacrocorax brasilianus

       
From wide distribution. He was seen in aquatic environments around the country.



 

             
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RED-LEGGED CORMORANT: Phalacrocorax gaimardi



     Inhabits coastal marine patagónicas of Chubut and Santa Cruz.



    


      Images taken in Puerto Deseado, province of Santa Cruz. .

BLUE-EYED CORMORANT: Phalacrocorax atriceps atriceps

 
   Inhabits coastal marine Patagonian, andean lakes and ponds
    interiors. Occasionally reaches the seacoast of the province
   Buenos Aires.
                               
   It feeds on fish they catch with their long beak. Dive and swim accurately. 
  Head and back black with white shoulders and backspot.  Yellow wattle. Blue lid. Ventral white.



          

 
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KING CORMORANT: Phalacrocorax atriceps albiventer
 

  Phalacrocorax atriceps albiventer regarded by some writers as a species apart
differs by having black cheeks and the back completely black, without white patch

                           

       Images taken in Puerto San Julian, province of Santa Cruz.

ROCK CORMORANT: Phalacrocorax magellanicus


  
  Inhabit coastal waters of the patagonica

 


 

  Images taken at Punta Lobos (Puerto Madryn), Chubut Province, and in the estuary Deseado, province of Santa Cruz.