He described several birds collected by Russian explorers of the Pacific Coast of North America, including Brandt's Cormorant, Red-legged Kittiwake and Spectacled Eider. He is also commemorated in Brandt's Bat.
The Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) is a strictly marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabits the Pacific coast of North America.
The common name honors the Russian naturalistJohannFriedrichvonBrandt of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, who described the species from specimens collected on expeditions to the Pacific during the early 1800s.
Brandt's Cormorants feed either singly or in flocks, and are adaptable in prey choice and undersea habitat.
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