Great cormorant
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| Species: | P. carbo
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| Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758)
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The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds.[2] It is a large black bird which breeds in much of the Old World and the Atlantic coast of North America. There is a lot of variation in its size in different parts of the world.Weight is reported to vary from 1.5 kg (3.3 lb)[3] to 5.3 kg (12 lb).[4]
Great Cormorant Media
Group of great cormorants in Latvia
2021-05-05 Phalacrocorax carbo carbo, Killingworth Lake, Northumberland 2-1
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) (53433200109)
Great cormorant at Tennōji Park in Osaka, December 2023 - 6091
Moroccan Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo moroccanus (8470661800)
White-breated cormorants, Lake Naivasha, Kenya
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Victoria, Australia.
Phalacrocorax capillatus on Tetrapod
Storskarv - Kranium - Phalacrocorax carbo
Cormorant fishing in Wuzhen Xizha, Zhejiang, China
Resting on a post in a port in Den Oever, the Netherlands
Stretching wings while sitting on a pole
Great cormorant hunting in Odessa
Adult great cormorant in breeding plumage, Texel, Netherlands (2010)
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Notes
- ↑ BirdLife International. 'Phalacrocorax carbo'. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2 (2012)International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ It is also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, the large cormorant in India and the black shag in New Zealand.
- ↑ Ribak, Gal; Weihs, Daniel & Arad, Zeev 2005. Water retention in the plumage of diving great cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis. Journal of Avian Biology 36 (2): 89. [1]
- ↑ Cormorant, in Canadian Encyclopedia. [2] Archived 2017-12-15 at the Wayback Machine