Great cormorant
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The great cormorant, also known as just cormorant in Britain, as black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormoran
2021 05 05 Phalacrocorax carbo carbo, Killingworth Lake, Northumberland 1 1
Group of great cormorants in Latvia
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At Ponnani, Malappuram, Kerala, India
European shag
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The European shag or common shag is a species of cormorant. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Gulosus. It breeds around the rocky coasts of western and southern Europe, southwest Asia and n
Great cormorant
…mostly silent, but they make various guttural noises at their breeding colonies. In European waters the great cormorant can be distinguished from the European shag by its larger size, heavier build, thicker bill, lack of a crest and body plumage with a purple, not green, tinge. In eastern North America, it is…
Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis
Shag in flight
Composite image of the bird jumping into the sea in Malinska, Croatia
G. aristotelis diving