flightless cormorant
Galapagos cormorant
phalacrocorax harrisi latin

Had it hit the flightless cormorants, for example, they would have been doomed.

This very successful bird was called by human beings a "flightless cormorant."

Thus, although their population size is small, Flightless Cormorants can recover fairly quickly from environmental disasters.

Other animals include marine and land iguanas and many unusual birds, such as the flightless cormorant.

The Flightless Cormorant, a peculiar bird which has lost the ability to fly, is also part of this rich fauna.

Because of these factors, the Flightless Cormorant is one of the world's rarest birds.

Like those of the flightless cormorants, their ancestors, too, had abandoned the glamor of aviation - electing to catch more fish instead.

They were about the size of flightless cormorants, and had the same long, snaky necks and fish-spear beaks.

The Flightless Cormorant of the Galápagos Islands also seems to belong here.

Her neck as she dangled was coming to resemble that of a blue-footed booby or swan, or flightless cormorant.

The first two lineages (and possibly the Flightless Cormorant) are basal and cannot be assigned to either subfamily.

Galapagos Conservation Trust - flightless cormorant (March 2004)

Galapagos has the world's only flightless cormorant, and New Zealand has an almost flightless ground parrot.

The wing drying action is seen even in the flightless cormorant but commonly in the Antarctic shags and red-legged cormorants.

ARKive - images and movies of the flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)

On crossing the island looking for a species of flightless cormorant, the doctor discovers Acheron on the other side of the island.

RIT.edu - personal observations of the Flightless Cormorant by Dr. Robert Rothman.

On this island, Galápagos penguins, flightless cormorants, marine iguanas, pelicans and Sally Lightfoot crabs abound.

If considered a distinct genus, they would get the name Dilophalieus or (more probably) Nannopterum, the old genus of the Flightless Cormorant.

The volcanic islands have their own unique flora and fauna due to their isolation, including flightless cormorants, marine iguanas and Galápagos finches.

Several bird species that are native to the area and rare include the lava gull, the Galapagos penguin and the world's last land-bound seabird, the flightless cormorant.

Isabela is home to penguins, flightless cormorants, pelicans and iguanas, as well as Darwin Volcano and Darwin Lake.

The famous Flightless Cormorant inhabits this island, as well as galapagos penguins, pelicans, galapagos land iguanas, rice rats, and sea lions.

In the process, he had made celebrities of many of the islands' creatures, the flightless cormorants, the blue-footed boobies, the larcenous frigate birds, and on and on.

The famous flightless cormorants inhabit this island, as do Galápagos penguins, pelicans, Galápagos sea lions and Galápagos fur seals.

Livezey, B.C. (1992) Flightlessness in the Galapagos cormorant (Compsohalieus [Nannopterum] harrisi): heterochrony, gigantism and specialisation.

The Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi), also known as the Galapagos Cormorant, is a cormorant native to the Galapagos Islands, and an example of the highly unusual fauna there.

ARKive - images and movies of the flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)