14 Unique Animals of the Galapagos Islands
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Flightless Cormorant
sea bird that looks somewhat like a duck with black and grey feathers but it has outstretched, short, stubby wings, and long hooked beak, a flightless cormorant of the Galapagos Islands.
robert cicchetti / Shutterstock
A candidate for the most unusual endemic species on the Galapagos, the flightless cormorant is the only cormorant in the world that has lost the ability to fly. As a result, it has grown to become the heaviest cormorant species in the world.
Because this species does not fly, it is susceptible to predation from introduced predators such as dogs, cats, rats, and pigs. Today, only around 2,080 of these unique birds exist
of 14
Flightless Cormorant
sea bird that looks somewhat like a duck with black and grey feathers but it has outstretched, short, stubby wings, and long hooked beak, a flightless cormorant of the Galapagos Islands.
robert cicchetti / Shutterstock
A candidate for the most unusual endemic species on the Galapagos, the flightless cormorant is the only cormorant in the world that has lost the ability to fly. As a result, it has grown to become the heaviest cormorant species in the world.
Because this species does not fly, it is susceptible to predation from introduced predators such as dogs, cats, rats, and pigs. Today, only around 2,080 of these unique birds exist
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31 August 2023
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