Alfred Cove Nature Reserve - Perth

A great spot to see wading birds in Perth - many of them are migratory and there is even a resident Osprey!

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Great Cormorant

The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the Black Cormorant in Australia and the Black Shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds in much of the Old World and the Atlantic coast of North America.

Little Pied Cormorant

The Little Pied Cormorant, Little Shag or Kawaupaka (Microcarbo melanoleucos) is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the subantarctic. It is a small short-billed cormorant usually black ...more ↓

Little Black Cormorant

The Little Black Cormorant, Phalacrocorax sulcirostris, is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It is common in smaller rivers and lakes throughout most areas of Australia and northern New Zealand. It is around sixty centimetres long, and is all black with blue-green eyes.

Australian Pied Cormorant

The Australia Pied Cormorant (pronounced /ËŒpaɪd ˈkÉ”rmÉ™rÉ™nt/ PYED-KOR-mÉ™-rÉ™nt), (Phalacrocorax varius), also known as the Pied Cormorant or Pied Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family. It is found around the coasts of Australasia. In New Zealand it is usually known either as the Pied Shag or by its Maori name of ...more ↓

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