black-faced cormorant
black-faced shag
phalacrocorax fuscescens latin

Black-faced Cormorants roost on the south side.

Black-faced Cormorants nest on the smaller western islet.

Black-faced Cormorants also breed on the island and Little Penguins roost there.

The Black-faced Cormorant breeds on the islet.

Recorded breeding seabird species are Common Diving-Petrel and Black-faced Cormorant.

Unlike the other cormorants found around the Australian continent, the habitat of the Black-faced Cormorant is exclusively coastal and marine.

The western islet is a flat, rocky reef, without vegetation, that is used as a roost site by Black-faced Cormorants.

Black-faced Cormorants breed there, and they hold an important breeding colony of Australian Fur Seals, with up to about 1000 pups being born there annually.

It has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because of its globally significant colony of Black-faced Cormorants.

The Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens), also known as the Black-faced Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family.

The smaller and very different Southern Australian Black-faced Cormorant, Phalacrocorax fuscescens, is also sometimes known as the White-breasted Cormorant.

Phalacrocorax lucidus is not to be confused with the smaller and very different endemic South Australian Black-faced Cormorant, which also is sometimes called the white breasted cormorant.

Breeding seabird and shorebird species include Fairy Prion, Common Diving-Petrel, Pacific Gull and Black-faced Cormorant.

Recorded breeding seabird species are the Fairy Prion (100 pairs), Pacific Gull, Silver Gull and Black-faced Cormorant.

The island has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it holds over 1% of the world population of Black-faced Cormorants.

As well as up to 138 pairs of Black-faced Cormorants, recorded breeding seabird and wader species include Little Penguin, Pacific Gull and Sooty Oystercatcher.

Recorded breeding seabird species include Little Penguin, Black-faced Cormorant (over 500 pairs), Silver Gull, Crested Tern and Caspian Tern.

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are Little Penguin, Short-tailed Shearwater, Pacific Gull, Sooty Oystercatcher and Black-faced Cormorant.

Breeding seabirds and shorebirds include Common Diving-Petrel, Pacific Gull, Silver Gull, Sooty Oystercatcher and Black-faced Cormorant.

Together with nearby Boxen Island it is classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because it has been recorded as supporting 288 breeding pairs of Black-faced Cormorants.

The Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens), also known as the Black-faced Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family.

Phalacrocorax fuscescens (black cormorant)

BirdLife International (2006) Species factsheet: Phalacrocorax fuscescens.

The Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens), also known as the Black-faced Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family.

The smaller and very different Southern Australian Black-faced Cormorant, Phalacrocorax fuscescens, is also sometimes known as the White-breasted Cormorant.