Rock shag
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The rock shag, also known as the Magellanic cormorant, is a marine cormorant found around the southernmost coasts of South America. Its breeding range is from around Valdivia, Chile, south to Cape Hor
Magellanic cormorant Chiloe 2
Magellanic cormorant Chiloe
nesting; Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
adult (left) with juvenile
Phalacrocorax
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Phalacrocorax is a genus of fish-eating birds in the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae. Members of this genus are sometimes informally known as the Old World cormorants, though their distribution is
Rock shag
…of his visit to Tierra del Fuego in December 1774 during James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. The rock shag was formerly placed in the genus Phalacrocorax but based on the results of a molecular genetic study of the cormorants published in 2014, the species was moved to the genus Leucocarbo. The genus had…
2021 05 05 Phalacrocorax carbo carbo, Killingworth Lake, Northumberland 1 1
Juvenile Phalacrocorax carbo with extensive but diffuse white on the underparts. The other species show broadly similar juvenile plumage.
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