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2021 05 05 Phalacrocorax carbo carbo, Killingworth Lake, Northumberland 1 2🐦

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SpeciesSuliformesPhalacrocoracidae
Birds

🐦Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758)

鸕鶿（學名：Phalacrocorax carbo），別名鷺鶿、川鵜、水老鴉、魚鷹、鷧（yì）、烏鬼，是一種廣泛分佈的鸕鶿屬海鳥。 普通鸕鶿主要生活在舊大陸和北美洲東海岸，一般在懸崖上或樹上作窩，但是越來越多地也在内陸生活。在海草和嫩枝達成的窩裏一次下3至4枚蛋。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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27
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Measurements
13
vs you
≈ 1/25th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
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
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great Cormorant

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
2.53 kgrecord 2.5 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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 length
1.01 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Tail length
0.15 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.34 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.08 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
32 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
30 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 4
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
2.5 Laverage
Details ↓

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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderSuliformes
  5. ›familyPhalacrocoracidae
  6. ›genusPhalacrocorax
  7. ›speciesPhalacrocorax carbo
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyPhalacrocoracidae
All 10 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyPhalacrocoracidae
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More about the Great Cormorant

Closest relative on this site
🐦 Black Stork — last shared an ancestor ≈ 72 million years ago.
In other languages
kormoran zwyczajny (pl), 普通鸬鹚 (zh), Cormorán grande (es), nagy kárókatona (hu), Κορμοράνος (el), storskarv (sv) … and 27 more languages

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