🐦Great Cormorant
El cormorán grande (Phalacrocorax carbo) es una especie de ave suliforme de la familia Phalacrocoracidae de distribución casi mundial. Habita en Eurasia, África, Australasia y las costas atlánticas de Norteamérica, donde vive en cualquier extensión grande de agua, como lagos, ríos, estuarios y aguas costeras e incluyendo los embalses.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 2.53 kg
- Body length
- 1.01 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 32 years
Everything we know about the Great Cormorant
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.53 kgrecord 2.5 kg · SeaLifeBaseAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male2.4 kgWikidataQ25440
- Female2 kgWikidataQ25440
Figures vary
- 3.63 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.01 mmaximum recorded, total lengthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Tail length0.15 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Wing length0.34 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Beak length0.08 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Tarsus length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan32 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation30 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 4AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l2.5 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Great Cormorant yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderSuliformes
- ›familyPhalacrocoracidae
- ›genusPhalacrocorax
- ›speciesPhalacrocorax carbo
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyPhalacrocoracidae
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyPhalacrocoracidae
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