Bird

Neotropic Cormorant

Phalacrocorax brasilianus

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 8 of 64 parishes, across 6 habitats.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 8 of 64 parishes
Habitats: 6

Male Neotropic Cormorant, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Bob Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 369851131. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 8 of 64 parishes
Habitats: 6
Habitat models: Summer, Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Louisiana 6

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 6

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

SummerWinter

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

SummerWinter

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerWinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest; West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest; Red River Large Floodplain Forest

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

SummerWinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

SummerWinterSouthern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Swamp Systems; West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress Dome

Other habitats in its models (19)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.

Open Water (Aquaculture) Summer and winter.
Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer and winter.
Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Summer and winter.
Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter.