no-cathartidae

[no-cathartidae]

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Hi! I’m new to the vulture community. Allow me to introduce myself: I am a freshly graduated biologist with a BSc degree. I am specialized in ecology and I’ve picked up vulturing about a year ago as one of my many nature-related hobbies.

One of my favorite, but misunderstood, birds: the great cormorant! I boiled the head and part of the neck of this animal for a few hours with a little bit of sodium carbonate and plucked of the left-over meat after. I ended up cleaning up 2 cervical vertebrae (left top) and the whole skull which are divided into the 2 quadrate bones (left bottom) the lower jaw (middle) and the upper jaw/skull (right). Can’t wait to put the pieces together!

SOURCE DISCLAIMER: This Great Cormorant was gifted to me by a family member who works as a hunter to shoot animals (mostly geese) as wildlife management. I am not against hunting as long as it is for wildlife management AND only if it is the last management option. I would never harm an animal, kill an animal or have an animal killed for my personal collection and I do not support sources that obtain organic remains in an unethical way.