Big Blank (Phalacrocorax Carbo Sinensis Blumenbach, 1796-1810). Detachment: Glind - Pelecaniformes. Family:Baklanovy - Phalacrocoracidae.

Status

Description

Large cormorant size with goose and weighing up to 3 kg. The overall color of the cinema is black, with a bronze-green tide "on the edges of a yellow naked throat and cheeks whitish. Beak drowato-black, with a yellow spot. The legs are very short, black, all fingers are connected by a swimming pool. Young gray-brown bird, with light bottom of the body. It goes bad, it takes off with difficulty, with a scatter or with elevation. When landing, it holds vertically, often with straightened wings, it sits deep on the water, slightly pulling the beak and lowering the tail on the water. From the water rises hard, with a weakege. Flying seemingly heavy, but direct, fast, with frequent wingspins.

Features

There are no similar species in the local fauna.

Spread

Lowness of the Danube, Dniester, Dnieper, Kuban, the Caspian Sea coast, the lowerland of Cheese Daria and Amu Darya, Lake Tuva and Transbaikalia, South-Western Siberia and Kazakhstan, east to Zaysaga and Alacol. Outside the USSR: Western Europe, South Asia, Africa, Australia and Northeast of North America)