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Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

Description:

Corvo-marinho-de-faces-brancas - large black bird with a long beak and tail

Habitat:

Santa Cruz Beach, on a big rock and flying over the ocean

Notes:

seen drying its wings on the sun and flying over the ocean

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2 Comments

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

Really? Ups hehe

PedroNicolau
PedroNicolau 10 years ago

Two different species here Madster: Great Cormorant (P. carbo) and Shag (P. aristotelis)

mendes.madalena
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mendes.madalena

Portugal

Spotted on Sep 13, 2013
Submitted on Jan 2, 2014

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