White-breasted cormorant [1] ( lat. Phalacrocorax fuscescens ) is a species of bird from the cormorant family.
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White-breasted cormorant is an endemic of Australia . It lives only on the southern coast of the Australian continent from Western Australia to the south of New South Wales and Tasmania [2] . More than 1% of the world's population of the species lives on the inaccessible rocky islet of Hippolith Rocks [3] .
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Birds have a cormorant appearance. The body length is up to 60–65 cm, the wingspan is 90–110 cm. The plumage from above and from behind is black, from below and in front is white. Beak and paws are dark gray.
Adult individuals are able to dive to a depth of 10-12 meters. Food - fish up to 50 cm long.
A colony may consist of two or more thousand birds [4]
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- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 21-22. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ PJ Higgins (Hrsg): Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds, Band 1, Ratites to Ducks, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0195530683
- ↑ Brothers, N., D. Pemberton, H. Pryor and V. Halley. Tasmania's Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features . - Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2001 .-- 643 p. - ISBN 0-7246-4816-X .
- ↑ Phalacrocorax fuscescens . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
Links
- Species Phalacrocorax fuscescens (English) in the World Register of Marine Species .