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NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D2Xs
Aperture Value
f/4
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Manual
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
500 mm
ISO
100
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
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Sun 19 Apr 2009 04:19:25 PM EDT
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Defined: DKZ00021
English Reed Cormorant
Scientific (Microcarbo africanus)
Order SULIFORMES
Family (Latin) Phalacrocoracidae
Family (English) Cormorants, Shags
Other name(s) Long-tailed Cormorant, Cormoran africain
Breeding Regions AF
Breeding Range Subregions mainly inland; widespread Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Benin,Botswana,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,Congo,Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Ivory Coast, Kenya,Lesotho,Liberia,Madagascar,Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Mozambique,Namibia,Niger, Nigeria,Rwanda,Sao Tome and Principe,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Sudan,Swaziland, Tanzania,Togo,Uganda,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
africanus inland and coastal Sub-Saharan Africa
pictilis Madagascar (mainly w)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
German Riedscharbe
French Cormoran africain
Chinese 长尾鸬鹚
Japanese アフリカコビトウ
Russian Камышовый баклан
Spanish Cormorán africano
Portuguese corvo-marinho-africano
Bird Data App text A small Cormorant also known as the Long-tailed Cormorant. Breeding birds are black, while non-breeding have pale to brown front.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)