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title: "Cormorano comune"
description: "Phalacrocorax carbo — Uccelli. The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), also known as just cormorant in Britain, as black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/great-cormorant
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cormorano comune

> Phalacrocorax carbo — Uccelli. The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), also known as just cormorant in Britain, as black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds.

- Scientific name: *Phalacrocorax carbo*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Laghi e fiumi), `sea` (Mare e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 175226
- Wikidata: [Q25440](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25440)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4270](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4270)

## Names

- en: Great Cormorant
- de: Kormoran
- es: Cormorán grande
- fr: Grand Cormoran
- it: Cormorano comune
- nl: Aalscholver
- pt: Corvo-marinho-de-faces-brancas
- pl: Kormoran zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

GB (17019), RU (14209), DE (13914), FR (12236), ES (9627), IT (9413), AU (8281), ZA (5150), JP (5095), PT (4944), NL (4220), DK (3038)

## Summary

The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), also known as just cormorant in Britain, as black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds in much of the Old World, Australasia, and the Atlantic coast of North America.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_cormorant

## Photo

![Cormorano comune](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-cormorant/medium.jpg)

Photo: John Cull · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144835711

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/great-cormorant?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).