Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Neotropic Cormorant FAMILY - Phalacrocoracidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Phalacrocorax brasilianus SYNONYMS - Phalacrocorax olivaceus - Humboldt, 1805 REFERENCES - 1 and 2 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 40 Resident, species present all year. 3 Apparently secure in Belize 38 Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places 38 Killed as agricultural/maricultural pests 38 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 33 District Reference Belize 5 Cayo 4 Corozal 14 Orange Walk 6 Stann Creek 11 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Sighting Dry season 16 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Sighting Wet season 4 Chiquibul Forest Reserve Dry season 25 Chiquibul Forest Reserve Wet season 15 Payne's Creek Wildlife Sanctuary 18 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting Dry season 14 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Dry season 18 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 21 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 34 Gallon Jug 20 Gallon Jug 6 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Sighting Dry season 17 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Wet season 24 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 22 Chiquibul National Park Dry season 25 Chiquibul National Park 18 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 12 Burdon Canal Nature Reserve Dry season 8 Community Baboon Sanctuary 23 Community Baboon Sanctuary 28 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve Dry season 13 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 10 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 5 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop Dry season 26 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher 37 Private land, see comments Sighting Permanent 7 Private land, see comments Permanent 27 Private land, see comments 11 Private land, see comments Dry season 26 Private land, see comments 18 Private land, see comments 9 Government land 36 Cayes, other; see comments 27 Monkey River Special Development Area Sighting 32 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 34 Belize River 28 Macal River 25 Belize River 7 Macal River 4 Cox's Lagoon 5 Mussel Creek 10 Sittee River 11 Sibun River 12 New River 13 Raspaculo River 15 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 34 1-200 m 35 1-200 m 36 1-200 m 37 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 22 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 24 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 36 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 35 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 35 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 23 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 26 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 27 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 28 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 34 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 26 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 35 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 27 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 8 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 35 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 5 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 26 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 8 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10' 8 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 35 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 35 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 37 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 25 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 18 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 4 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 11 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 18 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 14 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 32 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 16 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 21 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 37 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 35 Subtropical moist 36 Subtropical moist 35 Subtropical moist 34 Subtropical moist 28 General Distribution Comments 40* Common northern semideciduous moist forest. Common southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Common Mtn. Pine Ridge/savannas on poor soil. Common coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. Common mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches. 3* Common in northern hardwood forests, common in southern hardwood forests, common in the Mountain Pine Ridge, common in coastal savannahs, common in mangroves & beaches along coastal mainland. 27* Big Falls Rice Farm; Caye Chapel 26* Big Falls 25* Guacamallo Bridge 18* Ballerina Camp, San Pedro Columbia, Ycacos Lagoon 11* Possum Point Biological Station 9* Sighted at or within 5 mile radius of Chaa Creek Cottages 7* Banana Bank Ranch 4* Rubber Camp References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Miller, B.W.; C.M. Miller. 1992. Preliminary Avian Survey of the Upper Macal River: Rubber Camp and Francelia Camp, pp.55-63. in Macal River Hydroelectric Development Environmental Impact Assessment Rubber Camp and Chalillo Schemes Pre-feasibility Study - Draft Environmental Appendix. Vol. II of III 5 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.4-8. 6 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 7 Duncan, M., W. Duncan. 1993. Banana Bank, Nov. 1, Checklist provided in lit. 8 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1993. Preliminary Avian Survey of Burdon Canal Nature Reserve. Unpublished report for the Forest Department 9 Carnegie Ornithological Group and Mass Audubon Ornithological Group, compilers. 1993. Chaa Creek Bird List. Unpublished list. 10 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1987. Conservation of a Critical Marsh and Lowland habitat, Mussel Creek drainage system, Belize, C.A. Report to NYZS/Wildlife Conservation Society. 11 Anon. 1993. Bird Checklist for Possum Point Biological Station, Sittee River, Belize 12 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 13 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 14 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 15 Mallory, E. 1993. Birds of the Upper Raspaculo, Belize: JSSEUR II. Unpublished report. 16 Reichelt, B., C. Philcox. 1994. DRAFT - Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Natural History Studies. Unpublished report. 17 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 18 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 19 Wood, D. S., R. C. Leberman. 1987. Results of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Expeditions to Belize. III. Distributional Notes on the Birds of Belize. Annals Carnegie Museum. 56(6):137-160. 20 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 21 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 22 Forsythe, D. 1994. Unpublished Belize Trip list June 18-21. 23 O'Connell, S. 1987. in Horwich, R. H. and J. Lyon. The Community Baboon Sanctuary, A Guide Book. Orangu-tan Press, Gays Mills, WI. pp. 113. 24 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 25 Barlow, S. C., G. B. Caddick. 1989. Report on the Status of the Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao, in Belize, Central America. Unpublished report. 26 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 27 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 28 James, D., J. Bider. 1993. Bird List: Community Baboon Sanctuary, 1989- 1993 (derived from banding & census data, field notes). Unpublished data 29 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller, S. N. G. Howell. In prep. An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Belize. 30 Stiles, F. G., A. F. Skutch. 1989. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY. Comstock Publishing Associates 31 Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press. 32 Meerman, J.C. ed. 1995. Monkey River Special Development Area Stann Creek District, Belize. Belize Tropical Forest Studies Publication #5. Unpublished Technical report for B.E.S.T. 33 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 34 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 35 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 36 ROM. 1997. Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jan. 1, 1997. Provided by Brad Millen. 37 Panza, R. 1997. Carnegie Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jun. 1, 1997. 38 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 39 A.O.U. 1991. Thirty-eighth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. The Auk 108: 750-754. 40 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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