Brandt's Cormorant (Urile penicillatus)🐦🕊️ 🦜🎵❤️

1⃣Brandt's cormorant (Urile penicillatus) is a strictly marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabits the Pacific coast of North America. It ranges, in the summer, from Alaska to the Gulf of California, but the population

2⃣north of Vancouver Island migrates south during the winter. Brandt's cormorants live on the Pacific coast of North America, in habitats such as bays, estuaries, and lagoons. This species nests on the ground or on rocky outcroppings.

3⃣Año Nuevo Island is an important seabird breeding colony in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, hosting Brandt's cormorants among other species of seabirds.

4⃣Brandt's Cormorant Urile penicillatus has most recently been assessed for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2018. Urile penicillatus is listed as Least Concern.

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