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Cape Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capensis)

About Cape Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capensis)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Pelicans
  • Family: Cormorants

The Cape cormorant is a marine bird, which breeds in enormous colonies in relatively remote and inaccessible habitats, including the flat areas of small offshore islands, coastal cliffs, artificial guano platforms and occasionally on other artificial structures (3) (6). Sometimes it enters harbours and estuaries (2)
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  • 2002-12-29
    Cape Point, South Africa
    Beach in Simonstown