Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
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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 ...
Great Cormorant
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Great Cormorant
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Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis - In flight
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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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Great Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo
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Great Cormorant
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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 Phalacrocorax carbo. Occasional in winter on Gulf Coast. Found on bays and in the Gulf.
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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 ...
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Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) May 2006
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Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) September 2005 ...
Species appearing similar to the Double-crested Cormorant in the eastern United States are the Neotropical (Olivaceous) Cormorant and the Great Cormorant.
Lock, A.R., and R.K. Ross.
1973. The nesting of the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) and the Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) in Nova Scotia in 1971. Canadian Field-Nat 87: 43-49.
The crests of the Double-crested Cormorant are rarely seen. Great Cormorants are occasionally seen in coastal areas.
name area season diet/native food plants
Double-crested Cormorant
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THE COMMON CORMORANT.
[Great Cormorant.]
PHALACROCORAX CARBO, Linn.
[Phalacrocorax carbo.] ...
The white belly contrasts with a juvenile Cape Cormorant. The beak has not hook at the end, contrasted with juvenile Great Cormorant. However, Crowned Cormorants are not found commonly on shore so this ID is not definite.
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) - Dare Co., NC 11/9/08
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) - Dare Co., NC 11/9/08
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo). Adult and immature at Wrightsville Beach, New Hanover Co.
The great cormorant nests high in trees or, as in other species, on steep, rocky sea cliffs. Two to six eggs per clutch are laid by the female.
During the First Gulf War images of badly oiled cormorants from the Gulf were regularly shown in the western media, and although the Great Cormorant is also found in the Gulf, it is likely that many of these were Socotra cormorants.
Great Cormorant at the nest with young
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 See also: Cormorant, Petrel, Swallow, Gannet, Sparrow
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