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Birds
Great cormorant
Great cormorant · Phalacrocorax carbo
Great cormorants are elegant fishers and fascinating birds to watch around bodies of water.
Fact file
- Size
- Great cormorants reach a body length of up to 90 cm and a wingspan of up to 1.70 m.
- Males and females
- Males are larger and have a more pronounced bill shape than females.
- Sounds
- Great cormorants often make harsh, croaking calls, which become louder during the breeding season.
- Diet
- Their main food consists of fish, which they catch by diving.
- Offspring
- The female lays between three and five eggs, which hatch after about 28 days.
How to identify Great cormorant
Great cormorants have striking, shimmering plumage that is usually black with a green or bluish sheen. Juvenile birds are more brown in colour and lose their lighter, larger wings during their first year of life.
The birds reach a body length of up to 90 cm and have a wingspan of up to 1.70 m. Their long neck and strong bill make them easy to recognise, while the clearly defined yellow patch at the base of the bill is particularly eye-catching.
More in the app
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- general viewing tips
- 3 places where you can see Great cormorant
Where Great cormorant live
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