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Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo · Family Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax carbo
Family Phalacrocoracidae
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 6,776,089
- Countries and territories with records
- 164
About this species
This species has 6,776,089 occurrence records from 164 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (12.2%), the Netherlands (10.8%), the United Kingdom (10.7%), Denmark (8.5%) and France (6.9%); together they account for 49.1% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.81% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Phalacrocorax carbo combines the genus name Phalacrocorax with the species epithet carbo. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Phalacrocorax; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Phalacrocorax sulcirostris, Phalacrocorax varius and Phalacrocorax fuscicollis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 30 species of the family Phalacrocoracidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Nannopterum auritum. Its record count is 8.2 times the family average (821,390). The family Phalacrocoracidae belongs to the order Suliformes, which has 48 species in the Warbla app catalog.