Talk:White-breasted cormorant

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White-breasted Cormorant

I suggest that white-breasted Cormorant is Living in South Australia also. I often see it.

I have also seen this bird on Hayling Island in Hampshire UK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.120.133 (talk) 22:01, 23 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Far be it from me, and all that, but I wish I could be half as confident as you seem to be about which species you have seen where. A lot of professional ornithologists would join me in that wish, because, as you may see if you read the article carefully, the specific status is by no means settled. I assume you have seen some form(s) of the great cormorant complex, but that is by no means the same thing; I would be modest about spreading the glad tidings of the species you think you have seen in Oz; if your mates have any serious background in pulling the birds, they might take the mickey somewhat. JonRichfield (talk) 18:08, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Distribution
According to this 2012 paper published in Ardea:


 * "The White-breasted Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo lucidus occurs in Central, West, East and South Africa. The West African population breeds on the Cape Verde Islands and along the Atlantic coast from Mauritania to Guinea."
 * The West African population is concentrated along the Sahelian Upwelling Marine Ecoregion, which extends along the Atlantic coast from Morocco to Guinea. The size of the West African population is estimated at 35,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2006).

According to this book, the species has nesting sites in Djoudj National Park, located in Senegal.

I think the map distribution range map should reflect the species' presence in littoral West Africa. Mooonswimmer 15:11, 16 May 2024 (UTC)