Red-faced Cormorant
Urile urile(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
English (US) Red-faced Cormorant
The Red-faced Cormorant (Urile urile) 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: coastal North Pacific from Kamchatka (eastern Russia) southward to southern Kuril Islands and Hokkaido (northern Japan), and eastward through Aleutian and Pribilof islands (Bering Sea) and southern Alaskan islandsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Urile urile
- Order
- Suliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red-faced Cormorant
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pelecanus Urile
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
- Type locality
- Kamchatka.
- Original description
- Systema Naturae. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin (etc.). Tomus I. Pars II 1 pt2 p.575
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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