Neotropic Cormorant

Call and song

• Recording 1 · call, Croaks and other calls while mating

  Recording: Valerie Heemstra · Xeno-canto · CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 (licence)

• Recording 2

  Recording: Parker Davis; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

• Recording 3

  Recording: Carl Hughes; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

About the Neotropic Cormorant

Black body. Immatures have dark brown breast. Orange facial skin comes to a point and is bordered by thin white line. Smaller, longer-tailed and shorter-legged than Double-crested Cormorant. Dives underwater to capture fish. Often perches with spread wings to dry them out. Most widespread species of cormorant from Mexico south. In U.S., seen mostly in Texas.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 36 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

• Argentina
• Aruba
• Bahamas
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Caribbean Netherlands
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Curaçao
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Suriname
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• United States
• Uruguay
• Venezuela