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Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

Classification

Class
Aves

The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), 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 cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds in much of the Old World, Australasia, and the Atlantic coast of North America. Taxonomy The great cormorant was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 463,973Netherlands · 403,289Spain · 273,716Germany · 147,319France · 147,202Italy · 57,335Belgium · 27,322Switzerland · 24,471Luxembourg · 2,155