Cormorants, Shags
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo
The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, the large cormorant in India and the black shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. The genus name is Latinised Ancient Greek, from φαλακρός (phalakros, "bald") and κόραξ (korax, "raven"), and carbo is Latin for "charcoal".
- Family
- Cormorants, Shags
- Order
- Suliformes
- Weight
- 2.5 kg
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 116
Recorded in Sweden, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Denmark, France, Norway, Spain, Australia, Germany, Belgium, India, United States, Portugal, Italy, Finland, Japan, Taiwan, Poland, New Zealand, South Africa, Turkey, Ireland, Canada, Switzerland, Czechia, Israel, Estonia, Bulgaria, Republic of Korea, Austria, China, Russia, Greece, Iceland, Serbia, Isle of Man, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Hungary, Hong Kong, Croatia, Romania, Morocco, Kenya, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Iran, Nepal, Senegal, Georgia, Uganda, Luxembourg, Namibia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Oman, Egypt, Kuwait, Belarus, Cyprus, Gambia, Ethiopia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Azerbaijan, Tanzania, Zambia, Moldova, Rwanda, Montenegro, Botswana, Mozambique, Albania, Zimbabwe, JE, Bangladesh, North Macedonia, Åland, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Armenia, Thailand, Philippines, Kyrgyzstan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Greenland, Myanmar, GI, Bosnia and Herz., Uzbekistan, GG, EH, Jordan, Bahrain, Mauritania, Andorra, Malta, Iraq, Vietnam, New Caledonia, Lebanon, Palestine, Angola, XK, Singapore, Tajikistan, Guinea-Bissau, NF.
Where to see it: Offshore Libya (Libya); Dorćolski kej · combined eastern and western part, IBA Ušće Save u Dunav (Serbia); Húsavík · Haukamýri (Iceland); Trbojsko jezero | Lake Trboje (Slovenia); Kökar · Hamnön lintulava (Åland Islands).
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