What is Great cormorant?
{{Taxobox | name = | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{IUCN|id=22696792 |title=''Phalacrocorax carbo'' |assessors=[[BirdLife International]] |version=2013.2 |year=2012 |accessdate=26 November 2013}}</ref> | image = Phalacrocorax carbo02.jpg | image_width = 250px | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Aves]] | ordo = [[Suliformes]] | familia = [[Phalacrocoracidae]] | genus = [[Phalacrocorax]] | species = '''P. carbo''' | binomial = '''Phalacrocorax carbo''' | binomial_authority = ([[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758) }} [[Image:Phalacrocorax carbo ja01.jpg|thumb|]] [[File:Phalacrocorax carbo MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.46.1.jpg|thumb| ''Phalacrocorax carbo'']] The '''great cormorant''' ''(Phalacrocorax carbo)'', is a member of the [[cormorant]] family of [[seabird]]s.<ref>It is also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, the large cormorant in India and the black shag in New Zealand.</ref> It is a large black bird which breeds in much of the [[Old World]] and the Atlantic coast of [[North America]]. There is a lot of [[Wikt:variation|variation]] in its size in different parts of the world.Weight is reported to vary from {{convert|1.5|kg|lb|abbr=on}}<ref name=Ribak2005>Ribak, Gal; Weihs, Daniel & Arad, Zeev 2005. Water retention in the plumage of diving great cormorants ''Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis''. ''Journal of Avian Biology'' '''36''' (2): 89. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0908-8857.2005.03499.x/abstract]</ref> to {{convert|5.3|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref name=CanadianEncyclopedia>Cormorant, in Canadian Encyclopedia. [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/cormorant/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215221204/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/cormorant/ |date=2017-12-15 }}</ref> == Notes == {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Cormorants]]