pygmy cormorant
Microcarbo pygmeus latin

On the island is breeding a colony of pygmy cormorant.

The pygmy cormorant is a species with habitats strongly affected by human actions.

The pygmy cormorant was observed sporadically before 1999 and more regularly after that.

Pygmy cormorants like pools with plenty of vegetation, lakes and river deltas.

Some are rare and threatened, like the black stork, white pelican and pygmy cormorant.

Pygmy Cormorant and Ferruginous Duck may also be present.

The number of pygmy cormorant pairs was 10,000 without taking in account the breeding population of the Danube Delta.

It is also hunted in leisure activities, and in Iran the pygmy cormorant is commercialized for cooking.

Ulubat Lake is one of the breeding areas for the endangered pygmy cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus).

There are some 91 globally threatened species found within the country, among which the Dalmatian pelican, pygmy cormorant, and the European sea sturgeon.

The pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmaeus) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds.

Both Glossy Ibis and Pygmy Cormorant have bred in small numbers in recent years.

Phalacrocorax pygmaeus (pygmy cormorant)

Phalacrocorax pygmeus (Pygmy cormorant)

Its wetlands support vast flocks of migratory birds of over 300 species, including the endangered pygmy cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmaeus).

During the winter months in the bay at Poda, pygmy cormorants, a globally endangered species, rest at Poda.

The greater white-fronted goose, red-breasted goose and mallard spend the winter there, and there are large populations of the pygmy cormorant and great white pelican.

Fauna observed in the lake basin consist of pygmy cormorant (microcarbo pygmeus), great cormorant (phalacrocorax carbo), and A4iii group waterbirds.

The sea eagle can be seen on the island, and until 1985 other species to be observed on it included the squacco heron, glossy ibis and pygmy cormorant.

We shall make our way along channels lined with overhanging willows, the haunts of Pygmy Cormorant, Glossy Ibis, and every European breeding species of heron.

The Worldwide Fund for Nature has said the canal threatens the delta's most important wetland, where 70 percent of the world's white pelicans and 50 percent of pygmy cormorants live.

The pygmy cormorant is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

The pygmy cormorant occupies an area from the south-east of Europe (east of Italy) and south-west of Asia, in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Examples are grey heron, purple heron, great egret, little egret, squacco heron, cattle egret, great bittern, little bittern, pygmy cormorant and ferruginous duck.

In winter the marshes now cover 76 per cent of their previous range and wildlife is returning, with water buffalo abundant, marbled teal numbering about 43,000, along with pygmy cormorants and the African darter.

The pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmeus) is a member of the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant) family of seabirds.

Fauna observed in the lake basin consist of pygmy cormorant (microcarbo pygmeus), great cormorant (phalacrocorax carbo), and A4iii group waterbirds.