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Species
Near Threatenedvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Leucocarbo
- Image
- Leucocarbo bougainvillii, Islas Ballestas 5.jpg
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- taxon name
- Leucocarbo bougainvilliorum
- taxon rank
- species
- taxon common name
- corvo-marinho-do-guano
- Commons category
- Leucocarbo bougainvilliorum
- Commons gallery
- Leucocarbo bougainvillii
- litter size
- 3
- short name
- L. bougainvilliorum
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
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Encyclopedic overview
The guanay cormorant or guanay shag (Leucocarbo bougainvilliorum) is a member of the cormorant family found on the Pacific coast of Peru and northern Chile. After breeding it spreads south to southern parts of Chile and north to Ecuador, and has also been recorded as far north as Panama and Colombia, probably a result of mass dispersal due to food shortage in El Niño years. Its major habitats include shallow seawater and rocky shores. A former population on the Patagonian Atlantic coast of Argentina appears to be extinct.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guanay Cormorant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.