little cormorant
microcarbo niger latin

Little Cormorants tend to forage mainly in small loose groups and are often seen foraging alone.

Little Cormorants are vocal near their nest and roosts where they produce low roaring sounds.

Experimental studies on food habits of the little cormorant, Phalacrocorax niger (Vieillot).

Little Cormorant.

Parasitic birdlice, Pectinopygus makundi, have been described from Little Cormorant hosts.

Little Cormorant Lake (south edge)

Little Cormorant Lake (southeast half)

Little Cormorant Lake (vast majority)

The sanctuary is also a breeding ground for rare and endangered species like grey pelicans, little cormorants, open bill storks and spoon bills.

Food Habits and Breeding Biology of Little Cormorant (Phalacrocorax niger).

The Little Cormorant (Microcarbo niger) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds.

The Little Cormorant is found across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and lowland Nepal.

Other birds include: Darter, Little Cormorant, Black eagle, Black-capped kingfisher, Great Indian hornbill, and Black woodpecker.

Other migratory birds in the sanctuary include the white-ibis, Indian reef heron, white-necked stork, grey-heron, coot, night heron, purple-heron, little cormorant, spoonbill and darter.

The breeding season of the Little Cormorant is between July to September in Pakistan and northern India and November to February in southern India.

Nesting colonies of the Little Cormorant (Phalacrocorax niger) and Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) in Pune city, Maharashtra.

It is a gregarious species that can be easily distinguished from the similar sized Little Cormorant by its blue eye, small head with a sloping forehead and a long narrow bill ending in a hooked tip.

The painted stork, the open bill, little cormorant, Sri Lanka Junglefowl (Gallus lafayetii) along with many species of owls, terns, gulls, eagles, kites buzzards are to be found at Wilpattu National Park.

Little Cormorants are seen on perches around the lake, Compact flocks of Brahminy Ducks, as well as Shovellers, Pintails, Gadwall, Teals, Pochards, Geese and Coots, are also seen.

Karanji Lake Nature Park is a place to spy on sundry bird species, including great and little cormorants, purple and grey herons, egrets, black ibises, rose-ringed parakeets, green bee-eaters and painted storks, as well as several kinds of butterfly.

It has also attracted indigenous endangered species including Painted Stork, Grey Heron, Darter, Little Cormorant, Little Egret, Intermediate Egret, Cattle Egret, Common Teal, Spotbills, pintail, and flamingos.

These provide nesting cover for the larger birds such as the painted storks, spotted-billed pelicans, spoonbills, white ibises, open-bill storks, four species of heron, three egret species, the chestnut bittern, the Indian darter, little cormorants and Indian shags.

The park's diverse aquatic avifauna includes Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala, White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster, Grey Pelican Pelecanus philippensis, Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo , and Little Cormorant P. niger.

The birds now found in the lake (some of the birds are pictured in the gallery) are Spot-billed Pelicans, Little Cormorant, Painted Storks, Openbill Storks, Eurasian Spoonbills, Black-crowned Night Herons and Oriental Darters.

The resident birds seen here include Little Cormorant, Spot-billed Pelican, Little Grebe, Common Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Little Green or Striated Heron, Pond Heron and Red-wattled Lapwing.