Phalacrocorax
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Phalacrocorax is a genus of fish-eating birds in the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae. Members of this genus are sometimes informally known as the Old World cormorants, though their distribution is
Juvenile Phalacrocorax carbo with extensive but diffuse white on the underparts. The other species show broadly similar juvenile plumage.
Phalacrocoraxneglectus
Socotra Cormorant
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
Shag in flight
Composite image of the bird jumping into the sea in Malinska, Croatia
G. aristotelis diving