Stats

Lifespan

10-15 yrs

Size

Large

Diet

Carnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Colony

Biome

Coastal wetland

Range

Worldwide

Movement

Flight

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Speed

Status

Common

About

This large black seabird lives along rocky coastlines and inland waterways. It dives up to 30 meters deep and stays submerged for over a minute to hunt fish.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Suliformes

Family

Phalacrocoracidae

Genus

Phalacrocorax

Species

Phalacrocorax carbo