Great Cormorant

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• Movement Pattern: Full Migrant

• Individual Type: Solo and Gather

• Population Trend: Increasing

• Population: ???

• Habitat System: Versatile

• Habitat: Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests; Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Mountain; Sky; Warm River; Cold River; Lukewarm River; Warm Littoral; Cold Littoral; Warm Intertidal; Cold Intertidal; Radiated Citadel; Volcano; Warm Ghost Town; Cold Ghost Town; Ruined Skyscraper.

• Earth: see below

  • Extant (Resident): Albania; Angola; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bangladesh; Belarus; Belgium; Bermuda; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Brunei Darussalam; Bulgaria; Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Chad; China; Congo Republic; DR Congo; Croatia; Cyprus; Czechia; Denmark; Egypt; Eritrea; Estonia; Eswatini; Ethiopia; Finland; France; Gambia; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Greenland; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Hungary; Iceland; India; Indonesia (Borneo); Iran; Iraq; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Jordan; Kenya; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Kuwait; Latvia; Lebanon; Lesotho; Libya; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malawi; Moldova; Montenegro; Morocco; Mozambique; Namibia; Netherlands; Nigeria; North Macedonia; Norway; Pakistan; Philippines (Batanes; Babuyan Islands; Cagayan; Ilocos Norte; Isabela); Poland; Romania; Russia (European Russia, Central Asian Russia); Rwanda; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Senegal; Serbia; Slovakia; Somalia; South Africa; South Sudan; Spain; Sudan; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Viet Nam; Zambia; Zimbabwe

  • Extant (Breeding): Afghanistan; Australia; Canada; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Mauritania; Mongolia; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Russia (Eastern Asian Russia); Solomon Islands; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Turkmenistan; Uganda; United States; Uzbekistan; Western Sahara

  • Extant (Non-breeding): Algeria; Bahrain; Bhutan; Faroe Islands; Gibraltar; Hong Kong; Israel; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Malta; Myanmar; Nepal; Oman; Palestine, State of; Portugal; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Slovenia; Sri Lanka; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Tunisia; United Arab Emirates; Yemen

  • Extant & Vagrant: Benin; Cabo Verde; Christmas Island; Liberia; Liechtenstein; Micronesia, Federated States of ; Norfolk Island; Northern Mariana Islands; Papua New Guinea; Seychelles; Spain (Canary Is.)

  • Extant & Origin Uncertain: Guam

• Berbania: worldwide

• Reinachos: worldwide

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

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• Tagalog: Dakilang Kasiri

• Iloko: Dakkel a Kasiri

• Cebuano: Kasiri

• Maori: Kawau nui

• Japanese: カワウ, 大きな鵜 (Kawau, Ōkina-u)

• Turkish: Karabatak

• Malti: Margun

• Polish: Kormoran zwyczajny

• Welsh: Mulfrain mawr

• Piemontèisa: Cormoran

• Spanish: Cormorán negro, cormorán grande

• English: Great cormorant, great shag, black shag, great black cormorant, black cormorant, large cormorant

• Scots: Scarf

• West-Vlams: Butstekker

• Zeêuws: Aâlscholver

• Svenska: Storskarv

• Kalaallisut: Oqaatsoq

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_cormorant

• https://examples.yourdictionary.com/famous-shakespeare-quotes.html#cormorant

• https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22696792/155523636

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25440

• https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Phalacrocorax_%28Phalacrocorax%29_carbo

• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Phalacrocorax_carbo

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Great-Cormorant-873706132

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Great-Cormorant-2024-1098500057