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cormorantAny of various diving seabirds, mainly of the genus Phalacrocorax, order Pelecaniformes, about 90 cm/3 ft long, with webbed feet, a long neck, hooked beak, and glossy black plumage. Cormorants generally feed on fish and shellfish, which they catch by swimming and diving under water, sometimes to a considerable depth. They collect the food in a pouch formed by the dilatable skin at the front of the throat. Some species breed on inland lakes and rivers. P. carbo has a bright shiny head and neck, with bluish-black feathers, speckled with white. The general colour above is a greenish black, the throat white, and the bill and feet are dark grey. It is found in all parts of the world in coastal regions. There are about 30 species of cormorant worldwide, including a flightless form Nannopterum harrisi in the Galapagos Islands; the shag, or green cormorant, P. aristotelis; and the small European cormorant, Halietor pygmaeus, which is a freshwater bird. The guanay cormorant P. bougainvillei, of the Peruvian coast, is the main producer of the guano of those regions.
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African fauna arctic animals Arctic, the Galapagos Islands Gifu Ichabo Kentucky Maine shag snakebird South American fauna | What will he say when, instead of a pair of plump turtle doves, billing and cooing in a bower of roses, he finds a single lean cormorant, standing mateless and shelterless on poverty's bleak cliff? Pepper with all his learning had been mistaken for a cormorant, and then, as unjustly, transformed into a cow. He took the wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand over Pieria; then he swooped down through the firmament till he reached the level of the sea, whose waves he skimmed like a cormorant that flies fishing every hole and corner of the ocean, and drenching its thick plumage in the spray. |
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