Cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae)

Red-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax urile) - HBW 1, p. 346

French: Cormoran à face rouge German: Rotgesichtscharbe Spanish: Cormorán Carirrojo
Other common names: Red faced Shag

Taxonomy: Pelecanus Urile Gmelin, 1789, Kamchatka.
Sometimes placed in genus Stictocarbo. Monotypic.

Distribution: N Pacific from Hokkaido (N Japan), Kuril and Commander Is eastwards to Aleutian Is and S Alaska.