San Francisco Bay Area Seabirds, Double-Crested Cormorant

Double-Crested Cormorant Drying Feathers

Docks on Marina Green

San Francisco Bay Area Birdwatching
SeaBirds of Marin, SF Bay and Gulf of the Farallones

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Double-Crested Cormorant

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Double-Crested Cormorant Facts:

Double-Crested Cormorant Scientific classification

• Double-Crested Cormorant Kingdom: Animalia
• Double-Crested Cormorant Phylum: Chordata
• Double-Crested Cormorant Class: Aves
• Double-Crested Cormorant Order: Pelecaniformes
• Double-Crested Cormorant Family: Phalacrocoracidae
• Double-Crested Cormorant Genus: Phalacrocorax
• Double-Crested Cormorant Species: P. auritus

Double-Crested Cormorant Binomial name

• Phalacrocorax auritus

Video: Flock of Double-crested Cormorants:

See Birds Go Crazy Feeding Frenzy

SeaBirds on the San Francisco Bay Video

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Double-crested Cormorant, Sausalito

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List of San Francisco Bay and Close Surrounding Area SeaBirds:

BIRD CATEGORY GULLS AND TURNS

• Parasitic Jaeger
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Long-Tailed Jaeger
• South Polar Skua
• Bonaparte's Gull
• California Gull
• Herring Gull
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Western Gull
• Heerman's gull
• Sabine'sg gull
• Black-Legged Kittiwake
• Elegant Tern
• Common Tern
• Artic Tern
• Caspian Tern
• Forster's Tern

BIRD CATEGORY ALCIDS

• Rhinoceros auklet
• Common Murre
• Cassin's Auklet
• Pigeon Guillimot
• Tufted Puffin
• Ancient Murrelet
• Marbled Murrelet
• Xantus's Murrelet

BIRD CATEGORY TUBERNOSES

• Laysan Albatross
• Black Footed Albatross
• Buller's Shearwater
• Northern Fulmar
• Pink-footed Shearwater
• Black-vented Shearwater
• Sooty Shearwater
• Flesh-Footed Shearwater
• Short-Tailed Shearwater
• Leach's Storm-Petrel
• Ashy Storm-Petrel

BIRD CATEGORY PELICANS AND CORMORANTS

• Brown Pelican
• Brandt's Cormorant
• Pelegic Cormorant
• Double-Crested Cormorant

BIRD CATEGORY DUCKS AND GEESE

• Greater Scaup
• Surf Scoter
• Red-Breasted Merganser

BIRD CATEGORY SHOREBIRDS

• Black Oyster Catcher
• Red Phhalarope
• Red-necked Phalarope

BIRD CATEGORY HERONS AND EGRETS

• Great Blue Heron
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Great Egret
• Snowy White Egret

BIRD CATEGORY LOONS AND GREBES

• Common Loon or Great Northern diver (Gavia immer), This is the Loon most often seen wintering on the San Francisco Bay
These are Loons that winter in California and are Occaisonnally seen in this area:
• Red-throated loon or Red-throated diver (G. stellata)
• Yellow-billed loon or White-billed diver (G. adamsii)
• Pacific loon (G. pacifica), known as black-throated divers
• Arctic loon (G. arctica), known as black-throated divers
• Western Grebe