Phalacrocorax carbo ORDER: SULIFORMES FAMILY: PHALACROCORACIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
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The Great Cormorant is the most widely distributed of all the cormorants, breeding in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. In North America, however, it is restricted to just the Atlantic Coast, breeding in only a few colonies from Maine to Greenland.
Makes guttural calls at nesting sites, and fewer at roosts; otherwise usually silent.