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bird · Suliformes · Phalacrocoracidae

Bank Cormorant

Phalacrocorax neglectus (Wahlberg, 1855) — also called BACO, Wahlberg's Cormorant. Occurrence records of the Bank Cormorant are shared on GBIF from around 15 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all Betty's Bay Marine Protected Area (2 182 records).

IUCN: EndangeredPhalacrocoracidae
15reserves with records
7 668records around them
1provinces
ENIUCN category
Bank Cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus)
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

ReserveProvinceRecords
Betty's Bay Marine Protected AreaMarine protected areaWC Western Cape2 182
Stony Point Nature ReserveNature reserveWC Western Cape2 146
Stony Point Penguin ColonyNature reserveWC Western Cape2 141
Lion's Head Hiking TrailNature reserveWC Western Cape395
Boulders Penguin ColonyGame reserveWC Western Cape284
Lambert’s Bay Bird Island Nature ReserveGame reserveWC Western Cape183
Cape Point Nature ReserveNature reserveWC Western Cape76
Jock's BayNature reserveWC Western Cape66
SAS Saldanha Nature ReserveNature reserveWC Western Cape45
Malgas Island Marine Protected AreaMarine protected areaWC Western Cape45
Paternoster MiddenProtected heritage siteWC Western Cape44
Marcus Island Marine Protected AreaMarine protected areaWC Western Cape41
Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected AreaMarine protected areaWC Western Cape9
Jutten Island Marine Protected AreaMarine protected areaWC Western Cape8
Cape Columbine Nature ReserveNature reserveWC Western Cape3

By province

Western Cape
15 reserves

Taxonomy

Class
Aves
Scientific name
Phalacrocorax neglectus
GBIF taxon
2481873
Wikidata
Q1266380

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.