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Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo
51.5194, -0.489722
Field Notes
Description:
This cormorant had secured himself the perfect perch in the middle of the lake!
Habitat:
The Great Cormorant breeds mainly on coasts, nesting on cliffs or in trees, but also increasingly inland.
Notes:
The Great Cormorant can dive to considerable depths, but often feeds in shallow water. It frequently brings prey to the surface. A wide variety of fish are taken: cormorants are often noticed eating eels, but this may reflect the considerable time taken to subdue an eel and position it for swallowing, rather than any dominance of eels in the diet. In British waters, dive times of 20–30 seconds are common, with a recovery time on the surface around a third of the dive time.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2011
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