Double-crested Cormorant

Nannopterum auritum

Double-crested Cormorant photographed by Mark Curtis
Carpinteria · March 25, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 9.5M open records.

Records by month. January, 666,050 records. February, 560,186 records. March, 695,750 records. April, 1,184,584 records. May, 1,216,912 records. June, 582,893 records. July, 606,314 records. August, 837,675 records. September, 939,404 records. October, 918,719 records. November, 708,677 records. December, 579,817 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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