Double-crested Cormorant
Nannopterum auritum
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Cormorants and Shags
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About the Double-crested Cormorant
Dark body with orange bare skin at the base of the bill. Breeding adults are all black. Immatures and nonbreeders have paler breast. Dives underwater to catch fish. Swims like a duck in between dives. Finds open perches to spread wings and dry feathers. Can be in large flocks or solo. Most widespread cormorant across U.S. and Canada; also most likely to be seen inland.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 30 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- High Seas
- Honduras
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Spain
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
