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Flightless Cormorant
Sign in to saveAlso known as Nannopterum harrisi, Galapagos cormorant
species of bird
Species
Vulnerablevia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Nannopterum
- Image
- Flightless Cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi) (19455799592).jpg
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- taxon name
- Nannopterum harrisi
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- short name
- N. harrisi
- taxon common name
- biguá-das-galápagos
- Commons category
- Nannopterum harrisi
- Commons gallery
- Nannopterum harrisi
- endemic to
- Galapagos Islands
- taxon author citation
- (Rothschild, 1898)
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Encyclopedic overview
The flightless cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi), also known as the Galápagos cormorant, is a cormorant endemic to the Galápagos Islands, and an example of the highly unusual fauna there. It is unique in that it is the only known cormorant that has lost the ability to fly. It was placed in its own genus, Nannopterum, but then was later placed with most of the other cormorants in the genus Phalacrocorax. A 2014 study supported reclassifying it and two other American cormorant species back into Nannopterum. The IOU followed this classification in 2021.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Flightless Cormorant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.