Cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae) is a group of flightless pelikanfugler (Pelecaniformes). Species have elongated bodies and usually dark colors. They eat fish as they dive for. In Norway the species cormorants and shags.

Great Cormorant is a migratory bird that is about 80-95 inches long. The wingspan is 130-160 centimeters and weighs about bird 2,5-3 kg. The gray beak, the upper bill is bent down over undernebbets peak, is yellow inner tooth root. Adult cormorants have a white lårflekk and missing feather top, such a peak cormorant has. The legs are short and sits far back on the body, which is typical for good divers.

The dark feet are webbed between all four toes. Baktåen is long and facing inward. Middle toe has teeth standing in a row on a comb, and yttertåen is longer than that between the toe. The wings are short. Tail is rounded. Cormorant has a plumage that sucks water in motsetninng to other divers that are water resistant. This makes the cormorant to perhaps best sea diving, when it does not struggle with buoyancy from plumage. Cormorants are found in an angler stomach 65 feet deep, and is observed while stalking a shoal of mackerel. It is very shy and change the direction of hundreds of meters away if it is suspicious.

It is ca. 90 cm long, has black plumage with bluish metallic sheen, white chin and white cheeks, from January to June, besides a large white spot on outer thigh, hence the local name hvitlåring. Cormorants nest on both sides of the North Atlantic and scattered in several other parts of the world. In Norway it breeds along the coast of Trøndelag and northwards. Great Cormorant breeds in this country in islets and cliffs along the coast, Unlike subspecies between cormorants, that nest in trees. Koloniruger. The nest consists of seaweed and twigs. The 3-5 light blue eggs are incubated by both sexes in 28-31 days. The kids stay in the nest until they are about. 7 weeks old. Partially migratory, Norwegian birds winter primarily along the Norwegian coast. Death in fishing nets has been an issue of great cormorant population in recent years.

Skarven can be quite helpful for people, but it does not take much to kammuflasje to deceive the. From the waterfront by boat, you can easily approach you rascal if you're under a blanket or a compression. The challenge is that Cormorant thrive on little congested areas, such as the cutting and rods etc.. With a little patience, however, it comes pretty close.

In the recent past I have photographed cormorants off Round, and generally in the archipelago Herøy. In the photo above is a part of cormorants pictures I've taken in the past.

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