Wrong Coloured Cormorant

[Lakesailor]

I don't know about that, but their droppings kill the trees. Cormorant Island in the Swallows and Amazons was in fact Silver Holme, further down the lake and they completely killed all the trees on that island. There was a cull of them (2/6d per head, 12.5P in modern money) to stop that.
Now they are on the protected list, but it seems that recently a licence has been granted for another cull. (fishermen hate them)

 

[TimDaniel]

So what's a shag then? (!) .... haven't they got a white chest? ... or is it a white throat?

(someone else can do the jokes!)

 

[Lakesailor]

Don't know. I just fancied a cormorant.
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There is no consistent distinction between cormorants and shags. The names "cormorant" and "shag" were originally the common names of the two species of the family found in Great Britain, Phalacrocorax carbo (now referred to by ornithologists as the Great Cormorant) and P. aristotelis (the Common Shag). "Shag" refers to the bird's crest, which the British forms of the Great Cormorant lack. As other species were discovered by English-speaking sailors and explorers elsewhere in the world, some were called cormorants and some shags, depending on whether they had crests or not. Sometimes the same species is called a cormorant in one part of the world and a shag in another, e.g. the Great Cormorant is called the Black Shag in New Zealand (the birds found in Australasia have a crest that is absent in European members of the species).

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