Great cormorant

Great cormorant
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Suliformes
Family:
Phalacrocoracidae
Genus:
Phalacrocorax
Species:
P. carbo
Binomial name
Phalacrocorax carbo
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Phalacrocorax carbo

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]

Notes

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Phalacrocorax carbo". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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]
  4. ↑ Cormorant, in Canadian Encyclopedia. [2] Archived 2017-12-15 at the Wayback Machine