Flightless Cormorant
Nannopterum harrisi(Rothschild, LW, 1898)
English (US) Flightless Cormorant
The Flightless Cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and Shags) in the order Suliformes.
Range: western Galapagos (coasts of Fernandina and Isabela)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Nannopterum harrisi
- Order
- Suliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Flightless Cormorant
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1898)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Phalacrocorax harrisi
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1898)
- Type locality
- Narborough Island, Galapagos Islands.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 7 p.52
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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