Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo
When to look
Records by month. January, 603,491 records. February, 440,373 records. March, 479,488 records. April, 432,026 records. May, 350,020 records. June, 255,932 records. July, 249,135 records. August, 330,111 records. September, 403,497 records. October, 486,676 records. November, 426,861 records. December, 461,153 records.
Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.
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