Guanay Cormorant

Phalacrocorax bougainvillii

Summary 2

The Guanay cormorant or Guanay shag (Leucocarbo bougainvillii) is a member of the cormorant family found on the Pacific coast of Peru and northern Chile. (The Argentinian population on the Patagonian Atlantic coast appears to be extirpated.) 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...

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  1. (c) Gunnar Engblom, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdingperu/6237134112/
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalacrocorax_bougainvillii

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