great cormorant
great black cormorant
phalacrocorax carbo latin

Recently great cormorants have spread to the archipelago and their numbers are increasing.

Many fishermen see in the Great Cormorant a competitor for fish.

Most birds cannot move their eyes, although there are exceptions, such as the Great Cormorant.

The great cormorant, spot-billed duck, and osprey are common throughout the year.

Their experimental subjects were great cormorants, from a colony that winters on the west coast of Greenland.

It feeds in the sea, and, unlike the Great Cormorant, is rare inland.

Great Cormorants are mostly silent, but they make various guttural noises at their breeding colonies.

A very rare variation of the Great Cormorant is caused by albinism.

The Great Cormorant can dive to considerable depths, but often feeds in shallow water.

A detailed study of the Great Cormorant concludes that it is without doubt to dry the plumage.

Great cormorants have been assumed to be visual feeders, as earlier experiments showed that their ability to find food was hampered in cloudy water.

In fact, the researchers suggest, in these conditions great cormorants may use acoustic or tactile cues, rather than visual ones, to find fish.

Chinese fishermen often employ great cormorants.

In other respects it is a large cormorant generally resembling the Great Cormorant.

It is distinguished from other forms of the great cormorant by its white breast and by the fact that subpopulations are freshwater birds.

The tops of these walls are used by great cormorants and great egret as standing, resting and sleeping areas.

"Shag" refers to the bird's crest, which the British forms of the Great Cormorant lack.

The toll includes great cormorants, great crested grebes, herring gulls and assorted others.

Many birds are passing vagrants, such as the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).

In the 1950s, the colonies of herons and great cormorant disappeared in the Palace, as a result of deteriorating living conditions.

The Great Cormorant is a large black bird, but there is a wide variation in size in the species wide range.

Also seen here are cattle egrets, great cormorants, darters, purple swamphen, and bronze-winged Jacanas.

In summers common visitors include Osprey, Grey Heron, Great Cormorant.

The European Shag's tail has 12 feathers, the Great Cormorant's 14 feathers.

The arms show a Great Black Cormorant on a gold background.

The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere.

There are also razorbills and guillemots, which look like miniature penguins; great black cormorants and their smaller cousins the shags; the mocking gulls, the suspicious gannets, the insouciant terns.

Many birds are passing vagrants, such as the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).

The Phalacrocorax carbo albino suffers from loss of eyesight and/or hearing, thus it rarely manages to survive in the wild.

The isle is inhabited by Phalacrocoracidae (Phalacrocorax carbo).

The situation was described in a recent study from 1996, entitled Cormorants, Phalacrocorax carbo, a first step towards a European management plan .

Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Black Shag (Phalacrocorax carbo)

The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere.

A black-necked form originally classified as Phalacrocorax patricki or Phalacrocorax carbo patricki is now regarded as synonymous with Phalacrocorax lucidus.

The college crest features a cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), a symbol of all three armed services; Britain's largest seabird flies, swims on the sea surface and catches its fish underwater, yet builds its nest on dry land (either on cliffs or in riverside trees).

The park's diverse aquatic avifauna includes Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala, White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster, Grey Pelican Pelecanus philippensis, Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo , and Little Cormorant P. niger.

If the generic and specific name have already been mentioned in the same paragraph, they are often abbreviated to initial letters: for example one might write, "The Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo has a distinct subspecies in Australasia, the Black Shag P. c. novaehollandiae".

The names "cormorant" and "shag" were originally the common names of the two species of the family found in Great Britain, Phalacrocorax carbo (now referred to by ornithologists as the Great Cormorant) and P. aristotelis (the European Shag).

Birds of the delta are both winter visitors and passage migrants including Phalacrocorax carbo, a wide variety of Anatidae, Fulica atra, about 30 species of migratory shorebirds, Chlidonias hybrida, Hydroprogne caspia, and the Brown-headed Gull (Larus brunnicephalus), which is very common.