🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Magellanic Cormorant live?

Phalacrocorax magellanicus has 30,486 records in 6 countries and territories, from 1865 to 2026. Most records come from Argentina.

AnimaliaChordataAvesSuliformesPhalacrocoracidaePhalacrocorax

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
Argentina 12,117
Chile 11,513
Falkland Islands 6,852
United Kingdom 2
Nigeria 1
ZZ 1

Related animals

Others in the family Phalacrocoracidae.

Double-crested Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
10,546,526 records
Great Cormorant/European Shag
Great Cormorant/European Shag
6,748,212 records
Neotropic Cormorant
Neotropic Cormorant
1,535,733 records
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Pied Cormorant
1,037,775 records
Little Cormorant
Little Cormorant
764,254 records
Little Black Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
685,727 records
European Shag
European Shag
526,182 records
Pied Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
373,095 records
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.