Phalacrocorax carbo is a large bird. Body length 72-87 cm, weight greater than 2 kg. Quintana black, head and neck with purple green luster, shoulders and wing with bronze color brilliance, the corners of the mouth and throat sacs yellow green, eyes beneath white, reproduction during the face red spots, white filamentous feather in head and neck, ribs with white spots. Often a group of habitat in the water's edge of the rock or water, a vertical standing posture. When swimming in the water, the body sinks more, neck up straight, head slightly upward. Habitat in rivers, lakes, ponds, reservoirs, estuaries and the marshes. Often a small group of activities. Good swimming and diving, swimming neck to stretch very straight, head slightly to tilt, diving first half leaping out of the water, then stand up and dive under. Feed on all kinds of fish. Mainly through diving predation. Distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North america. From on the north-east coast of America and the West Greenland to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the British Isles, Scandinavia, and east to Sakhalin Island, Japan, South to central Europe, Africa, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran, India, New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand.

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