Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
(aka Great Cormorant)
The Cormorant is found in suitable habitat throughout most of Europe, Asia, in Australia and New Zealand and in eastern North America.
Cormorant
Cormorants are among the most familiar of local seabirds. Those spending the winter here may come from breeding colonies on the Yorkshire coast, the Farne Islands, Anglesey, Abberton Reservoir in Essex or the Netherlands.
Cormorant
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Common Cormorant: Phalacrocorax carbo
Distribution: Coasts around Great Britain and rest of Europe, Africa, Asia, eastern North America & Australia; often seen inland around lakes and rivers.
Cormorant
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(kõr´mrnt), common name for large aquatic birds, related to the gannet and the pelican, and found chiefly in temperate and tropical regions, usually on the sea but also on inland waters.
Cormorant along Long Creek
First Landing State Park
12/27/10
Cormorants on the York River
A rather large flock of either Double-Crested (Phalacrocorax auritus), Great (Phalacrocorax carbo...
Cormorant A large aquatic bird which is really linked to the gannet and the pelican and is found mainly in warmer and tropical locations, mostly on the sea but at times on inland waters .
Cormorants
By: Petey & Petunia
Cormorants have webbed feet. They are fish eaters that swim with
their bill tilted upward. Cormorants dive from the surface and swim
under water.
Cape Cormorant, Phalacrocorax capensis
Socotran Cormorant, Phalacrocorax nigrogularis : The Socotra Cormorant is endemic to the Persian Gulf and the south-east coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
Identification Tips:
Length: 30 inches Wingspan: 60 inches
Sexes similar
Large, dark waterbird with a long, hooked bill and long tail
Long, thin neck
Gular area pointed and yellow
White chin patch ...
Guanay Cormorant Phalacrocorax bougainvillii
Described by: Lesson (1837)
Alternate common name(s): Guanay Shag, Guanay
Old scientific name(s): Leucocarbo bougainvillii ...
Indian Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis), also called Indian Shag, is a common resident in India.
Anseriformes
Apodiformes ...
Cormorants and shags (Phalacrocoracidae)
Overview
A large and conspicuous waterbird, the cormorant has an almost primitive appearance with its long neck making it appear almost reptilian. It is often seen standing with its wings held out to dry.
Cormorants inhabit coastal and inland waters. They often perch with wings spread.
Cormorants hunt by swimming and frequently peering underwater. When prey is spotted, they dive after it.
Cormorants sit very upright, often with half spread wings. Great cormorants are usually silent, but on nesting grounds, they communicate with a variety of growls, croaks and chucks.
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Cormorants, Pelicans, Ducks, and other water birds of various kinds, are, like land birds, at times infested with insects which lodge near the roots of their feathers; and to clear themselves of this vermin, ...
Cormorants feed and nest in large colonies. The nest is usually a crude platform of sticks or seaweed that the birds build on cliffs or in trees. Females lay three to five eggs, which take about a month to hatch.
Rock Cormorants are often seen close to shore flying low over the water, and are readily distinguished from the similar King Cormorant by the darker throat and red face patches of the former.
Rock Cormorant
Phalacrocorax magellanicus ...
Black Cormorant, Little Black Shag, Black Shag
Bird Family :
Phalacrocoracidae - Cormorants ...
Socotra cormorants can have breeding colonies and foraging flock populations numbering in the tens of thousands. They breed only on islands in the Middle East, and are threatened by coastal development in the area.
Neotropic Cormorant
Phalacrocorax brasilianus
The Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) is a species of South and Central America which barely enters the United States, mainly in south Texas.
Pelicans, cormorants and gannets are an order of birds known as the pelecaniformes. It also encompases, amongst others, the tropicbirds, frigatebirds and anhingas.
Flightless Cormorant, Phalacrocorax harrisi
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Where are they found? South America ...
The pelagic cormorant lives in both offshore and inshore waters. It nests on sea cliffs and rocky islands.
Diet The pelagic cormorant eats fish and crustaceans. It can dive to depths of over 100 feet to catch its prey.
Life Cycle ...
The Brandt's Cormorant inhabits marine environments along the Pacific Coast. This large, gregarious bird often feeds, flies, roosts, and nests in large groups.
The Neotropic Cormorant is very similar to the Double-Crested Cormorant, and is sometimes found with them.
Double-crested Cormorant Behaviour
No observations regarding Double-crested Cormorant behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Double-crested Cormorants ...
Double Crested Cormorants
These fish-eating birds are located in the outdoor flight cage adjacent to the bird house. Unlike other seabirds, they do not have waterproofing oils and spend much of their time drying their wings.
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DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Phalacrocorax auritus
OTHER NAMES: water turkey, crow-duck, shag ...
Double-crested Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax auritus)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Likely but not confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed ...
In evaluating the impact of cormorants on fish populations, it is important to distinguish between perception and reality.
Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large seabirds. Whether a species is call a cormorant or shag is a matter of local naming preference. They are distributed around the world, except for the central Pacific islands.
10. Cormorant Portrait
Cormorants spend a lot of time roosting somewhere near the water, either just drying wings or resting. Makes them good subjects for practising photographic technique. This one at Putah Creek recently, Lake Solano Park.
Bank cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus)
This large, marine bird was given its common name by fishermen who believed that its presence at sea indicated good fishing banks. The... More 9 Images 0 videos ...
Pygmy Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax pygmeus)
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Dalmatian Pelican
(Pelecanus crispus) ...
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo
Winter in harbors. Sometimes sits on buoy's at sea. If you are looking for this bird check out the Stone Pier in Gloucester or the rock in Boston Harbor near the UMass/ JFK library.
Crowned Cormorant
Africa Bird Guide Information: A marine version of the Reed Cormorant and recognised by its overall blacker appearance, permanent crest all year and shorter tail. ...
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cormorant (q.v.) and gannet as well as the true pelicans, and for a long while these and some other distinct groups, as the snake-birds (q.v.), frigate-birds (q.v.) and tropic-birds (q.v.), which have all the four toes of the foot connected by a web, ...
Cormorants can dive as deep as 24 metres and stay underwater for more than a minute.
The cormorants are the species most similar to the Anhinga. Cormorants can be differentiated from the Anhinga by their down-curved bill tip, their facial coloration (usually with yellow near the bill), and their lack of white spotting on the wings.
Great Cormorant
Lapwing
About Lapwing
Large plover, with distinctive wispy crest and broad, rounded wings. Bronze-green upper parts, black chest, white belly; reddish-buff under tail. Buff, black, and white face, with less buff in summer.
Great Cormorant
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Brown-headed Cowbird
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Pelicans, Cormorants and Allies (Order Pelecaniformes) These birds are aquatic, medium-sized to large, and feed on small fish and other animals found in the water.
Cormorants . . . Frigate Birds. . . Cock FightsIncluded in the Vault are images of: Ibis, Bald Ibis (Geronticus calcus), Scarlet Ibis (Eudocrimus ruber), Herons, Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), Blue Heron, Egrets, ...
11. Brandt's Cormorant, Brown Pelicans, Western and Heermann's Gulls (taken during one of Harry Fuller's Merrie Way walks)
12. Red-tailed Hawk (taken during one of Harry Fuller's Merrie Way walks) ...
A Checkerboard Wrasse at Cormorant Pass
A Checkerboard Wrasse at Mantis Reef
A Cheeklined Maori Wrasse at Charlie's Reef
A Cheeklined Maori Wrasse at Charlie's Reef, Fiji
A Cheeklined Maori Wrasse at Charlie's Reef, Mamanuca Islands ...
Brandt's Cormorant Phalacrocorax penicillatus: whale watching from Newport Harbor, CA 04 Jan
Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, 01 Jan ...
Neotropic Cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga
Magnificent Frigatebird, Fregata magnificens
Pelagic Species
Little Blue Heron, Egretta caerulea
Tricolored Heron (Louisiana Heron), Egretta tricolor ...
The use of old or abandoned stick nests from other species, including abandoned common raven nests on electric pylons, transmission towers, stone quarries and silos; osprey and cormorant nests on channel buoys; ...
They live in mixed colonies which can consist of other birds like cormorants and ibises.
Female egrets usually lay pale bluish-green eggs, and incubation takes 3-4 weeks. Hatchlings are covered in soft white downy feathers.
Many piscivorous birds, including egrets (Egretta spp.), herons (Ardea herodias, Butorides striatus, Nycticorax nycticorax), cormorants (Phalacrocorax spp.), terns (Sterna spp.), mergansers (Mergus spp.), grebes (Podiceps ssp., Podilymbus spp.
Interest in it is in fact growing, as in most European waters its population is in steep decline due to cormorants plundering their numbers. It is well represented in Slovenian streams.
Foraging Patterns of Caspian Terns and Double-crested Cormorants in the Columbia River Estuary
Author(s): Donald E. Lyons, Daniel D. Roby and Ken Collis ...
These birds breed in mixed colonies with herons or cormorants. They will build their own nest from sticks or make use of the old nest of another bird such as a small egret. The nest is found in a tree or bush by fresh or brackish water or salt water.
Colonial, occ assoc with California Gulls, terns, ducks, cormorants. Polygyny and females associating without males are rare (less than 1% of nests in large colonies) and account for all nests with >4 eggs.
One intriguing species, the flightless cormorant, has adapted so well to diving that they have lost the ability to fly altogether. This species lives on the Galapagos Island where it is free from predators.
Other birds include the dove, Antarctic fulmar, Antarctic cormorant, Kerguelen cormorant, Dominican gull, Brown skua, McCormick's skua, Arctic tern, Kerguelen tern, Wattled sheathbill, Lesser sheathbill, South Georgia pintail, Kerguelen pintail, ...
The distributions of nesting inshore seabirds such as cormorants, Common Eiders, gulls and terns depend more on the availability of suitable nesting sites than on the character of the local waters, ...
Similar Species: Double-crested Cormorant: under parts are not clean white. Common Loon: shorter, stocky neck. Eared, Homed and Red-necked grebes: much smaller.
A cormorant may follow the sea otter, and from the otters upturning of rocks, it can sometimes find a meal for itself.
 See also: Pelican, Heron, Eagle, Sparrow, Pigeon
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