Fauna Owen Springs ReserveAustralian Hobby Black Kite Brown Falcon Brown Goshawk Galah Great Cormorant Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Splendid Fairy-wren
The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) seen here at Redbank Waterhole in the Owen Spring Reserve, Northern Territory. They were up in the branches of the trees looking down at the fish that were collecting and trapped in the pools of the river that leads down to the waterhole.
In the following photographs, you can see the pair of Great Cormorant with a Little Black Cormorant.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Informal: Gnathostomata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Pelecaniformes
- Suborder: Sulae
- Family: Phalacrocoracidae
- Genus: Phalacrocorax
- Subgenus: infrageneric Phalacrocorax
- Species: Phalacrocorax carbo
Fauna Owen Springs ReserveAustralian Hobby Black Kite Brown Falcon Brown Goshawk Galah Great Cormorant Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Splendid Fairy-wren
Owen Springs ReserveAttractions Redbank Waterhole Fauna Flora