Socotra cormorant  (Phalacrocorax nigrogularis)

Range

This large bird has an extremely restricted range, with two subpopulations now breeding at a total of just nine locations (5). The northern subpopulation breeds on islands off the Persian Gulf coasts of Bahrain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar and possibly the Islamic Republic of Iran (breeding not confirmed since 1972) (2) (5). The much smaller southern population breeds on one or more islands off the Arabian Sea coast of Oman and in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen (2).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

The Socotra cormorant is an exclusively marine bird, which breeds only on flat-shored desert islands (2).

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