Showing posts with label Pied Cormorant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pied Cormorant. Show all posts

Thursday, June 29, 2017

PIED SHAG

Photographed on Tiri Tiri Matangi, June 2017
(*  135)               PIED SHAG             Phalcrocorax varius 

NEW ZEALAND               24

Known as Pied Cormorant in Australia; a common native throughout New Zealand. 56 cm. Found in lakes, farm ponds, rivers and streams, also estuaries, harbours and sheltered coastal waters.


Wednesday, June 18, 2014

PIED CORMORANT



135             PIED CORMORANT           Phalacrocorax varius

Australia       (135)

Also known as Yellow-faced Cormorant.  66-80 cm, wingspan c. 1.5 m.  Ranges over all of mainland except inland. Found in coastal waters, estuaries, bays, tidal inlets, and to far inland lakes and rivers.