New Zealand king shag

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For the species from South America, Antarctica and southern ocean islands that sometimes is known as the king shag, see imperial shag.

New Zealand king shag
New Zealand king shags
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Suliformes
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Leucocarbo
Species:
L. carunculatus
Binomial name
Leucocarbo carunculatus
(Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms

Phalacrocorax carunculatus

The New Zealand king shag (Leucocarbo carunculatus), also known as the rough-faced shag, king shag or kawau tūī, is a rare bird

Leucocarbo. Others place it in the genus Phalacrocorax
.

Taxonomy

The New Zealand king shag was

monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]

Description

Watercolour by Georg Forster who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage
Image of Male New Zealand king shag from the collection of Auckland Museum
Male New Zealand king shag from the collection of Auckland Museum

It is a large (76 cm long, 2.5 kg in weight) black and white

gular pouch is reddish in the breeding season. A blue eye-ring indicates its kinship with the other blue-eyed shags.[7]

Distribution and habitat

New Zealand king shags can be seen from the

Queen Charlotte Sound opposite the beginning of the Tory Channel. They live in the coastal waters of the Marlborough Sounds where they are known to breed only on rocky islets at four small sites.[8]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22696846A133555760.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 1 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer. p. 576.
  3. ^ Latham, John (1785). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 3, Part 1. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 603.
  4. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1856). "Excusion dans les divers Musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique, et tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des échassiers (suite)". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 43: 571–579 [575].
  5. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, darters, cormorants"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  6. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .
  7. ^ Schuckard, R. (2017). "New Zealand king shag". nzbirdsonline.org.nz. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  8. ^ "Species factsheet: Leucocarbo carunculatus". www.birdlife.org. BirdLife International. Retrieved 18 May 2019.

External links

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