. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PELECANID^. 361. THE COMMON CORMORANT. Phalacr6corax cArbo (Linnsus). The Great, or Black Cormorant, as it is sometimes called to distinguish it from the smaller Green Cormorant or Shag, is common and generally distributed along the greater part of the British coast-hne, and until 1825-27 some 50 or 60 pairs used to nest on the trees at Fritton, Suffolk. From Flamborough northward to Caithness it is more abundant, as a rule, than the Shag; though in the Shetlands, Orkneys, Hebrides, and along the western side of Scotland, it is usually in a mino
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PELECANID^. 361. THE COMMON CORMORANT. Phalacr6corax cArbo (Linnsus). The Great, or Black Cormorant, as it is sometimes called to distinguish it from the smaller Green Cormorant or Shag, is common and generally distributed along the greater part of the British coast-hne, and until 1825-27 some 50 or 60 pairs used to nest on the trees at Fritton, Suffolk. From Flamborough northward to Caithness it is more abundant, as a rule, than the Shag; though in the Shetlands, Orkneys, Hebrides, and along the western side of Scotland, it is usually in a minority; while in Wales it is again in the ascendant as far as Pembrokeshire, where, as in the south-west of England, the Shag predominates. It is widely distributed in Ireland. Apart from the sea-coast, the Cormorant not infrequently nests inland:. notably on the bold rock near Towyn known as Craig-y- deryn, and on several lakes in Ireland, sometimes breeding in com- pany with Herons on Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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