With its long neck and yellow bill, it catches fish in water and may spread its wings to dry while perched.
Its neck is very long and its pointed bill is yellow. Males are black; females are pale brown with a white stripe along the side of the neck.
In Busselton in Western Australia, Little Pied Cormorants and Little Black Cormorants nested near occupied Australasian Darter nests from 1992 to 1998. The observer reported that cormorants starting to breed appeared to be attracted to the darter nests. The arrangement of nests placed the cormorant groups around the darters.
At one nesting site, 14 cormorant nests formed three groups, each close to one or two darter nests. Cormorant breeding began around mid-May and ended by mid-August. Darter nesting was less synchronized: one nest with large chicks could stand near another where incubation had only just begun.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
In Busselton, two cormorant species nested close to occupied Australasian Darter nests from 1992 to 1998. Fourteen cormorant nests formed three clusters, each near one or two darter nests. The author described the cormorants as being attracted to the darters’ nests when starting to breed.