Great Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo - Aalscholver
Eurasia to Australia.
The following 6 subspecies are being recognized:
Phalacrocorax carbo carbo - Northeast-USA and East-Canada to West-Europe;
Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis - Central-Europe to India and China;
Phalacrocorax carbo hanedae - Japan;
Phalacrocorax carbo maroccanus - Northwest-Africa;
Phalacrocorax carbo lucidus - widespread inland Northeast- to Southwest-Subsaharan Africa;
Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandiae - Australia and New Zealand.
Of this species there are also Nature Photo's available.