Flightless Cormorants are endemic to the
Galapagos Islands. Similar in appearance to other cormorants, due its need to dive for food rather than hunt for food in flight, the Flightless Cormorant evolved to become the only type of cormorant that has lost its ability to fly and instead has become an adept swimmer. Found only on the north western shores of
Isabela and on the Island of
Fernandina it is one of the rarest birds in the world with only an estimated 1500 birds in existence.
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