New Zealand Shags
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Description: Description of the shags or cormorants found in New Zealand.
New Zealand Birds | Birds | Gallery | Kawau, the black shag, Phalocrocorax carbo “Vilified, condemned, outlawed, and with a price on its head, the shag stands as the declared enemy of mankind. Its chief crime is that it has transgressed the law that any animal that comes into competition for food with man has no right to live, a crime that is held to deserve nothing less than indiscriminate persecution.” So wrote the ornithologist, WRB Oliver, in 1930 in a passionate protest against the bounty the New Zealand Acclimatisation Societies, the forerunners of the Fish & Game Councils, paid for each shag killed. Between 1890 and 1940 many colonies were exterminated because it was thought they were eating trout which, incidentally, were introduced into New Zealand. And even now, during the duck shooting season, they are still subject to persecution by hunters who do not realise they are now protected.
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| Page title: | New Zealand Birds | Birds | Gallery | Kawau, the black shag, Phalocrocorax carbo |
| Keywords: | New Zealand Birds gallery, Kawau, the black shag, Phalocrocorax carbo novaehollandiae, native, endangered, taxonomy, description, illustration |
| Description: | Kawau, the black shag, Phalocrocorax carbo novaehollandiae, found in New Zealand Birds' bird gallery section, includes general information about the bird, taxonomy, description, where to find them and other useful and interesting information. The bird gallery links to in-depth descriptions of most New Zealand birds. |
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