Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Little Pied Cormorant, Warnambool, Victoria, Australia, February 2006 - click for larger image Australia

The Little Pied Cormorant is distributed in Australia,New Zealand and Indonesia. It is the smallest and possibly the most common cormorant in Australia. It is found inland as well as on the coast.

It has a short yellow bill and a white eyebrow running from the top of the bill over the eye. The immature, seen here in photos 4 and 5, is duller with no eyebrow and a black mark on the flank which is missing in the adult.

It is reasonably common to see adults with rusty stains on their underparts as in photo 3 and 6. These seem to come from impurities in the water but I didn't notice such stains on either of the other white breasted Cormorants, Black-faced Cormorant P. fuscescens or Pied Cormorant P. varius.

Little Pied Cormorant, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, January 2006 - click for larger image
Little Pied Cormorant, Kangaroo Island, SA, Australia, March 2006 - click for larger image
Little Pied Cormorant, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, January 2006 - click for larger image
Little Pied Cormorant, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, January 2006 - click for larger image
Little Pied Cormorant, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia, November 2010 - click for larger image
Little Pied Cormorant, Kakadu, Northern Territory, Australia, October 2013 - click for larger image
Little Pied Cormorant, Ormiston Gorge, Northern Territory, Australia, September 2013 - click for larger image
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