Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

Great Cormorant

“ Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. ”

– William Shakespeare

Scientific Taxonomy & Character Information

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Reptilia

Order: Suliformes

Family: Phalacrocoracidae

Genius: Phalacrocorax

Species: Phalacrocorax carbo

Descendant: cormorants

Named by: Carl Linnaeus

Year Published: 1758

Size: 70 to 102 cm (271⁄2 to 40 inches) and wingspan from 121 to 160 cm (471⁄2 to 63 inches) in length; 35 cm tall in height; 2.6 – 3.7 kg in weight

Lifespan: 10 to 20+ years

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Pantheon: Terran/Gaian

Time Period: Holocene

Alignment: Loyal

Threat Level: ★★★

Diet: Carnivorous 🥩🐟💧

Elements: Water, air

Inflicts: Waterblight

Weaknesses: Electric, nature, earth (50% immune), light, fae

Casualties: n/a

Based On: itself

Conservation Status: Least Concern (LC) - IUCN Red List

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) or Black Shag, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds, concisely of this name was called "carbon raven" because is not a real corvid, rather than pelican's relatives. Many fishermen see in the great cormorant a competitor for fish. Cormorant fishing is practiced in China, Japan, and elsewhere around the globe.

Etymology

Cormorant is the word from Medieval Latin: corvus marina means "sea raven".

Physical Appearance

The great cormorant is a large black bird, but there is a wide variation in size in the species' wide range. It has a longish tail and a yellow throat patch. Adults have white patches on the thighs and on the throat in the breeding season. There are larger sizes, heavier builds, thicker bills, a lack of a crest, and plumage without any green tinge. A very rare variation of the great cormorant is caused by albinism. The great cormorant albino suffers from poor eyesight and/or hearing; thus, it rarely manages to survive in the wild.

Abilities

Despite never utilizing it for combat, it has some dark element energy stored in its body, hence its often being dark-elemental. Poses the Great Cormorant, both terrestrial, airborne, or aquatic, to a bird that uses defensive vomiting to turn away predators.

Ecology

The great cormorant feeds on fish caught through diving. This bird feeds primarily on both freshwater and saltwater, like wrasses, gobies, smelts, soles, flatheads, sardines, carp, flying fish, and others. Great cormorants often nest in colonies near wetlands, rivers, and sheltered inshore waters. Pairs will use the same nest site to breed year after year. These nests were safe and away from predators due to their limited altitude. The Great Cormorant lays a clutch of three to five eggs.


Fishermen see in the great cormorant a competitor for fish. Some of these were pests in the past until the conservationists got the chance to share them between fishermen and cormorants due to a piscivorous diet.


In this practice, fishermen tie a line around the throats of cormorants, tight enough to prevent swallowing the larger fish they catch, and deploy them from small boats. The cormorants catch fish without being able to fully swallow them, and the fishermen are able to retrieve the fish simply by forcing open the cormorants' mouths, apparently engaging the regurgitation reflex.

Behavior

These cormorants are quite content to ignore animals and survivors, unless they get too close for comfort. They will bite any survivor that touches them before fleeing.

Distribution and Habitat

This is a very common and widespread bird species. It feeds on the sea, in estuaries, and on freshwater lakes and rivers. Great Cormorant found worldwide, including the Philippines to Aotearoa to Britain, elsewhere.


Tamed

Great Cormorant can be pet, you must kill fish and then bring it to the cormorant to tame it.

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