New Zealand Birds

11001-34808 Otago shag (Leucocarbo chalconotus) adult at nest. Recent morphometric work indicates that Leucocarbo shags from Otago are larger on average, with more extensive carunculation around the face, and a different breeding time to those of the Foveaux Shag (Leucocarbo stewarti), so there is an Otago species, and a Foveaux species of the so called 'Stewart Island shag'. This is individual is of the Otago species, from a colony on Green Island *

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11001-34808 Otago shag (Leucocarbo chalconotus) adult at nest. Recent morphometric work indicates that Leucocarbo shags from Otago are larger on average, with more extensive carunculation around the face, and a different breeding time to those of the Foveaux Shag (Leucocarbo stewarti), so there is an Otago species, and a Foveaux species of the so called 'Stewart Island shag'. This is individual is of the Otago species, from a colony on Green Island *

34808 Otago Stewart Shag island Leucocarbo chalconotus adult nest Green Island