Phalacrocorax stewarti Phalacrocorax chalconotus (in part) Leucocarbo chalconotus (in part)
The Foveaux shag (Leucocarbo stewarti), together with the Otago shag formerly known as the Stewart Island shag and in its dark phase as the bronze shag, is a species of shag endemic to Stewart Island / Rakiura and Foveaux Strait, from which it takes its name.
Painting from Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, 1897
variety of seabirds, most notably the endemic Foveauxshags and the rare yellow-eyed penguins. Foveaux Strait is a seaway separating Stewart Island (Rakiura)...
approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed, but...
The Otago shag (Leucocarbo chalconotus) (Māori: Matapo), together with the Foveauxshag formerly known as the Stewart Island shag and in its dark phase...
found that the Chatham shag is closely related to the Otago shag and that this pair are in turn a sister clade to the Foveauxshag. These three species...
resulting species are: Otago shag, Leucocarbo chalconotus, which is endemic to coastal Otago, New Zealand Foveauxshag, Leucocarbo stewarti, which is...
The European shag or common shag (Gulosus aristotelis) is a species of cormorant. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Gulosus. It breeds around...
The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the...
cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius), also known as the pied cormorant, pied shag, or great pied cormorant, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family...
The Indian cormorant or Indian shag (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis) is a member of the cormorant family. It is found mainly along the inland waters of the...
The Campbell shag (Leucocarbo campbelli), also known as the Campbell Island shag, is a species of bird in the family Phalacrocoracidae. It is endemic...
The imperial shag or imperial cormorant (Leucocarbo atriceps) is a black and white cormorant native to southern South America, primarily in rocky coastal...
The little pied cormorant, little shag or kawaupaka (Microcarbo melanoleucos) is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries...
Australia and northern New Zealand, where it is known as the little black shag. It is around sixty centimetres long, and is all black with blue-green eyes...
The Auckland shag or Auckland Islands shag (Leucocarbo colensoi) is a species of cormorant from New Zealand. The species is endemic to the Auckland Islands...
Phalacrocoracidae. Analogous to other smallish cormorants, it is also called the pelagic shag occasionally. This seabird lives along the coasts of the northern Pacific;...
The Bounty shag (Leucocarbo ranfurlyi), also known as the Bounty Island shag, is a species of cormorant of the family Phalacrocoracidae. They are found...
C. & Savinetskii, A. B. (1991). "Historical diversity of cormorants and shags from Amchitka Island, Alaska" (PDF). Condor. 93 (4): 840–852. doi:10.2307/3247718...
binomial name Pelecanus africanus. Gmelin based his description on the "African shag" that had been described in 1785 by the English ornithologist John Latham...
common names given to the species include darter, diver, needle-beak shag, shag, and snake-bird. The Noongar people of southwestern Australia call it...
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