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Birds
Crowned cormorant
Crowned cormorant · Microcarbo coronatus
Discover the compact, black-feathered crowned cormorant with feathered crest and bright red facial skin along Africa’s coasts.
Fact file
- Size
- Only around 50 cm in body length and about 1.3 kg in weight
- Males and females
- Male and female look almost the same, both have a feathered crest
- Sounds
- Soft cooing and rough murmuring in the colony
- Diet
- Mainly small fish and crustaceans close to the coast
- Offspring
- Breeding season usually from October to January, 2 to 3 eggs in a kelp nest
How to identify Crowned cormorant
The crowned cormorant is a small, compact cormorant species with glossy black plumage. During the breeding season the feathers on the back and wing coverts show a metallic sheen. Striking is the eponymous feathered crest on the back of the head, which gives the black and red head a distinctive silhouette.
The long, slender neck and the short, delicate bill appear particularly fine compared with other cormorant species. The bright red facial skin and the delicate white feathers on the flanks make the crowned cormorant unmistakable. In non-breeding plumage the colours look duller, but the feathered crest remains visible.
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