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Where does the Long-tailed Cormorant live?

Microcarbo africanus has 366,569 records in 53 countries and territories, from 1853 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Long-tailed Cormorant
Long-tailed Cormorant — Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesSuliformesPhalacrocoracidaeMicrocarbo

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
South Africa 265,484
Kenya 18,734
Uganda 10,314
Namibia 8,292
Botswana 8,237
Zimbabwe 6,676
Zambia 6,502
Gambia 6,020
Senegal 5,834
Tanzania 5,221
Mozambique 3,216
Nigeria 3,155
Ghana 3,077
Ethiopia 2,542
Rwanda 2,054
Eswatini 1,637
Benin 1,032
Malawi 1,025
DR Congo 1,015
Angola 759
Madagascar 654
Cameroon 606
Côte d'Ivoire 557
Guinea-Bissau 402
São Tomé & Príncipe 390
Congo 376
Lesotho 346
Togo 320
Mauritania 275
Gabon 248
Guinea 211
Liberia 195
Sierra Leone 190
Chad 180
Burkina Faso 141
Mali 94
Equatorial Guinea 90
Sudan 90
Niger 84
Burundi 79

Showing the top 40 of 53 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.