The Flightless Cormorant (or Galapagos Cormorant; Phalacrocorax harrisi) lives on Tagus Cove, on Isabela (Albemarle) Island, Ecuador, South America. The Flightless Cormorant is native to the Galapagos Islands, and is the world’s only cormorant that has lost the ability to fly. With only about 1500 individuals living, it is one of the world's rarest birds. Once it was placed in its own genus, Nannopterum or Compsohalieus, although current taxonomy places it with most of the other cormorants, Phalacrocorax. The largest island of the Galápagos archipelago was named in honor of Queen Isabela.
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