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Great Cormorant
Latin Name:
Phalacrocorax carbo
Category:
Size:
80cm
Description:
Sexes alike. Breeding adult: black plumage with metallic blue-green sheen; white facial skin and throat; bright yellow gular pouch and white thigh patches; silky white plumes on head and neck. Non-breeding adult: no white thigh patches; gular pouch less bright. First year young: dull brown above, white below. Aquatic. Not a gregarious species outside breeding season; usually one or two birds feeding close by; dives underwater in search of fish.
Habitat:
jheels, lakes, mountain torrents, occasionally coastal lagoons.
Food:
fish
Distribution:
resident in most areas; subcontinent, up to 3,000m in the Himalaya.