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Ardley Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Archipelago, Antarctica, January 1992

Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis

[edit] Identification

Blue skin surrounds dark iris, glossy black body, white belly and neck, bright orange nasal crest and pinkish legs and feet.

[edit] Similar species

Whiter and larger than its northerly cousin, the South Georgia Shag; range should not overlap between these two.

[edit] Distribution

Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetlands, and Elephant Island.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Imperial Shag by some authors^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Rocky coasts

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes fish.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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