never ending quiz no 5

[eastcoastbernie]

You are all much more knowledgeable than me, can't think of anything you lot wouldn't know straight off, so prize goes to most entertaining answer to the following question:

What's the difference between a cormorant and a shag?

As for the real answer, I haven't got a clue, but I'm sure one or all of you lot know.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

about £45

 

[eastcoastbernie]

Yeah, made me giggle, any more suggestions?

 

[sailorman]

you can beat a Cormarant but you cant beat a good shag /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[johnalison]

A shag doesn't have a whiteish throat. One of them has a forehead but I can't remember which, and one of them flies with the head below the body.

It's the shag with a forehead, and a crest.

 

[eastcoastbernie]

RSPB might have something to say about that one!

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

A decent cormorant stuffed in a pipe is really quite unpleasant....

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Cormorants don't make good piles....

 

[eastcoastbernie]

You obviously know your shags.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Do you Cormorant here often?

 

[Sixpence]

Hmm, nope, don't think I've ever had a cormorant

 

[johnalison]

I've met a few in my time.

 

[mormargh]

Not sure I know the precise answer, but the dividing line is probably the Stour (cormorants to the NE obviously).

 

[FullCircle]

British Cormorants never have a shag.
You can have a Black Shag in NZ, but they call it a Cormorant. You can also get a Spotted Shag in NZ and sometimes a Spotted Black Shag with a Cormorant.

You can still have a shag on a Pygmy Cormorant, but you've had it if you want a shag with a Spectacled Cormorant, cos theyre all dead.

Some shags are good at half jumping, so I wonder if they ever finish, and amazingly they are not waterproof.

I will bet that the best shag is probably the Great White Breasted, or Lolo Ferrari shag.


You can't get a Shag or a Cormorant in the Pacific, cos they don't go there.

I would say that I most resemble a King Shag, but that would probably make me a Red Faced Cormorant.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

[ QUOTE ]
Hmm, nope, don't think I've ever had a cormorant

[/ QUOTE ]Obviously never had a Chinese takeaway in Spalding then

 

[johnalison]

Dear Bernie, have I won?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Please dear God make her say yes........ /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[eastcoastbernie]

That's a reference to Essex innit?

 

[Sixpence]

[ QUOTE ]
Obviously never had a Chinese takeaway in Spalding then

[/ QUOTE ]

Bump into them most Saturday nights in the town centre, but they always charge too much and I'm told that half an hour after you've had one, you fancy another

 

[eastcoastbernie]

I declare the competiton over. For best researched and most entertaining answer I award the prize to Jim. Over to you Fullcirclip.