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Photo © by peterday
Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand November 2023

Alternative name: Rough-faced Shag

Leucocarbo carunculatus

Phalacrocorax carunculatus

Identification

76cm. Black and white, pink feet. White patches on the wings appear as bars when the wings are folded. Yellow-orange swellings (caruncules) are found above the base of the bill. The grey gular pouch is reddish in the breeding season. Blue eye-ring.

Distribution

New Zealand

Taxonomy

Sometimes placed in the genus Phalacrocorax.

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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External Links

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.

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