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Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo   (Linnaeus, 1758)
 

Distribution: Cosmopolitan  (Map)

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References:
James F. Clements. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition, Cornell University Press (June 7, 2007)








Taxonomy
Red list  - Least Concern   [INFO]
Kingdom Animalia
Animals
Phylum Chordata
Chordates
Class Aves
Birds
Order Pelecaniformes
Pelicans, Cormorants, Gannets
Family Phalacrocoracidae
Cormorants
Genus Phalacrocorax
Brisson, 1760
Species carbo
Great Cormorant
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies/hybrids/varieties
Subspecies
carbo
N Europe and n N America; winters to Gulf coast, nw Africa
sinensis
N-central Europe to s China; winters to SE Asia and Indonesia
hanedae
Honshu I. (Japan)
maroccanus
Coastal nw Africa (Morocco to Mauritania)
lucidus
Africa south of the Sahara and Cape Verde Islands
novaehollandiae
Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and Chatham Islands

Taxon names
  Swedish Storskarv
  Swedish syn. Ålakråka
  Catalan Corb marí gros
  German Kormoran
  Danish Skarv
  Spanish Cormorán Grande
  Estonian syn. Karbas
  Estonian Kormoran
  Estonian syn. Kormoran (karbas)
  Faroese Hiplingur
  Finnish Merimetso
  French Grand Cormoran
  Greenlandic Oqaatsoq
  Hungarian Kárókatona
  Icelandic Dílaskarfur
  Italian Cormorano comune
  Japanese Kawau
  Latvian Jūras krauklis
  Lithuanian Didysis kormoranas
  Dutch Aalscholver
  Norwegian syn. Storskarv
  Norwegian Storskarv
  Polish Kormoran
  Portuguese Corvo-marinho-de-faces-brancas
  Sámi Skárfa
  Turkish Karabatak
  Welsh Mulfran


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