Birds Thru My Eyes : CHINA / HONG KONG: Great Cormorant

Saturday, 10 January 2015

Order - Ciconiiformes 鹳形目
Family - Phalacrocoracidae 鸬鹚科 (Cormorants)
Genus - Phalacrocorax 鸬鹚属

Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

普通鸬鹚

Size : 80–100 cm; 1810–2810 g, Female lighter;

Wingspan 130–160 cm

Subspecies and Distribution

Phalacrocorax carbo carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) – Common Great Cormorant
– NE North America (Gulf of St Lawrence S to Maine) through SW Greenland and Iceland to Norway, NW Russia (Kola Peninsula) and British Is; also winters in SE USA, S Europe and N Africa.
Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (Staunton, 1796)
– C & S Europe and patchily through much of C Asia to Russian Far East, India and China; also winters in Africa and SE Asia.
Phalacrocorax carbo hanedae (Nagamichi Kuroda, 1925)
– Japan.
Phalacrocorax carbo maroccanus (E. J. O. Hartert, 1906) – Moroccan Cormorant
– NW Africa from Morocco S to Mauritania.
Phalacrocorax carbo lucidus (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1823) – White-breasted Cormorant
– coastal W & S Africa, inland E Africa.
Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) – Australasian Great Cormorant
– Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Chatham Is, and recently recorded breeding in New Caledonia (Grand Terre) and Solomons (Rennell).