Pygmy cormorant

Microcarbo pygmaeus Today, 3 October

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now going about the year 162 days

going about the year Bird here all year

The whole year

29 August – 14 March

the coastal calendar, shifted 14 days later for this region

Sitting the year outGetting readyYoung aboutYoung leaving

Where to look

Willow stands over water in Kopački rit and the lower Drava; roosts in noisy colonies.

Worth knowing

A Balkan speciality that came back from near-extinction, and one of the reasons Kopački rit is a Ramsar site. Nests in mixed colonies with herons, so a disturbance that flushes one species empties the whole tree.

Look it up

photos, sightings and recordings, off this site

iNaturalist — photos and where people are seeing it Wikipedia — Microcarbo pygmaeus xeno-canto — recordings of the call

Regions

where this species is on the list

Dalmatian coastKvarner and IstriaVelebit and the DinaridesSlavonia and the Pannonian plainTukhlia, Ukrainian Carpathians

Phase by phase

dates as they fall in the region chosen above

Phase	When	Length	What it means
courting	15 March – 7 April	24 days	Song, display, fighting, scent-marking — pairs forming or reaffirming.
building	8 April – 28 April	21 days	Nest, burrow or den under construction, or being lined out.
on eggs	29 April – 23 May	25 days	Clutch laid and being incubated, or buried and left to the sun.
raising young	24 May – 28 June	36 days	Dependent young in the nest, den or burrow, being fed.
young have left	29 June – 28 August	61 days	Young out of the nest or den, but still fed and followed by the adults.
going about the year	29 August – 14 March	198 days	Feeding, holding territory, doing nothing the calendar singles out.

Other birds in this region

Barn swallowBlack storkCommon cuckooCommon nightingaleCommon ravenCommon swiftEurasian scops owlEuropean bee-eaterEuropean robinGreat spotted woodpeckerGreat titHoopoeTawny owlWhite stork

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