Indian cormorant or Indian shag
(Cốc đế nhỏ, Phalacrocorax fuscicollis)
The Indian cormorant or Indian shag (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis) is a member of the cormorant family.
The bird is found mainly along the inland waters of the Indian subcontinent but extends west to Sind and east to Thailand and Cambodia.
Phalacrocorax is a genus of fish-eating birds in the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae, order Suliformes. Members of this genus are also known as the Old World cormorants.
Suliformes maybe from Old Norse Sula + -iformes for boobies, gannets.
phalacrocorax (“coot, cormorant”), from Ancient Greek φαλακρός (phalakrós, “bald”) (from φαλός (phalós, “white”) + ἄκρον (ákron, “top”)) + κόραξ (kórax, “raven”).
"Cormorant" is a contraction derived either directly from Latin corvus marinus, "sea raven".
Fuscicollis is a Latin term meaning "dark-necked". It is derived from the Latin words fuscus, meaning "dark" or "dusky," and collis or collum, meaning "neck".











