Phalacrocorax is a genus of fish-eating birds in the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae. Members of this genus are also known as the Old World cormorants. [2]

The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) and the common shag (Gulosus aristotelis) are the only two species of the family commonly encountered in Britain and Ireland [2] and …

The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black …

2021年6月22日 · Brandt’s cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) is one of 40 species of large seabirds from the family Phalacrocoracidae. The average Brandt’s cormorant stands 79 cm …

Phalacrocoracidae comprises a single genus (Phalacrocorax) (see van Tets (1976) support for two genera (Phalacrocorax (cormorants) and Leucocarbo (shags), and Siegel-Causey (1988) …

2023年7月12日 · Several different classifications of the family have been proposed recently, but in the one most commonly used, all but three species are placed in a single genus …

Great cor­morants co-oc­cur with other species of cor­morant through­out most of their range, ex­cept for Green­land. In east­ern North Amer­ica they may be con­fused with the more abun­dant dou­ble …

2020年3月4日 · Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. …

Restricted to rivers, lakes, large ponds and the sea coast, this cormorant is usually most apparent sitting on a snag low over the water with its wings extended to dry. It occurs in small flocks and …

2020年3月4日 · Cormorants and Shags (Phalacrocoracidae), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg, Editors). Cornell Lab of …