Editing Pygmy cormorant (section)

== Habitat and ecology ==
[[File:BirdsVeniceLagoon-pjt.jpg|thumbnail|left|Pygmy cormorants and [[little egret]] (''Egretta garzetta'') in the [[Venetian Lagoon]]]]
[[File:Phalacrocorax pygmeus MWNH 0533.JPG|thumb|Egg, Collection [[Museum Wiesbaden]]]]
[[File:PygmyCormorantKinneret.jpg|thumbnail|left|Pygmy cormorant in the [[Sea of Galilee]]]]
Pygmy cormorants like pools with plenty of vegetation, lakes and river deltas. They avoid mountainous and cold and dry areas. They love rice fields or other flooded areas where trees and shrubs can be found. During winter they also go to waters with higher salinity, in estuaries or on barrier lakes. These are birds who can live alone or in groups and they have adapted to human presence. They build [[bird nest|nests]] from sticks and reeds in dense vegetation, in trees, shrubs, willows but occasionally in reeds on small floating islets. At the end of May, beginning of June, both parents incubate for 27–30 days, and nestlings become independent after 70 days. The young are fed by their parents with small fish and other aquatic animals.<ref name=Kiss2002/> This bird frequently shares the same type of habitat with egrets, herons and spoonbills.