Lichk
Covered with dense stands of aquatic vegetation, Lichk offers excellent opportunities to many water and shorebirds as a breeding, foraging and stopover site.
Great Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo
Length: 80-100 cm, Wing Span: 130-160 cm
General description: Breeding adult is black with green gloss on upperparts. Mostly has a white head and white oval patches on thighs. Lacks the green gloss and white patches during the post-breeding season.
Abundance and habitat: Uncommon species of resident birds. Occurs in rivers, lakes and fish ponds. Nests in colonies on trees ad rivers.
Food: fish
Status: Listed in Armenia’s Red Data Book, categorized as “vulnerable”. Protected by the RA law on fauna.
Links
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_cormorant
BirdLife: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3679
Birdpedia: http://www.birdpedia.com/au/bi.dll/bipu02?m=006&id505=M000003937
RA Red Data Book: http://www.mnp.am/red_book_fauna/arm/a226.html
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Luba Reviewed
Svetlana, you seem to know birds very well, but what did you mean by your remark "The images do not correspond to the text!" ??? Please, clarify.
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The images do not correspond to the text!
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