Bird genealogy >> Order Suliformes >> Family Phalacrocoracidae
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Location

Taiaroa Head, Dunedin, South Island
New Zealand

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 640 mm
Exposure 1/1000, f/10.0, ISO 1600 
Image size 800 x 534 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Stewartscharbe Dutch  Stewartaalscholver
Italian  Cormorano bronzeo Spanish  Cormorán de la Stewart

Comments

A large, locally common pink-footed shag with pied and bronze phases and some intermediates. This one is Pied. There is no consistent difference between shags and cormorants.




 

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    27/03/2011

Bronze Shag
Leucocarbo chalconotus
Cormoran bronzé

Micheline JACQUEMIN