The flightless cormorant dives from the Galápagos coast to catch fish and octopus.
It has dark plumage, wings much shorter than those of flying cormorants and blue-green eyes.
Flightless Cormorants live along Isabela and Fernandina. They dive using powerful feet to seek fish and octopus in rocky refuges; small wings also help balance on shore.
Parents share incubation and feeding. Females may move to another breeding cycle while males continue chick care, linking nearby sea and nesting habitat.
Restricted distribution increases exposure to environmental changes. Conservation addresses introduced animals near nests and evaluates risks from plastic alongside fisheries-related pressures.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Environmental variation, fishing-gear entanglement and introduced animals are concerns. Conservation includes nest-area management, population monitoring and assessment of marine-plastic risks.