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Notes on Whero Island and other nesting and breeding stations of the Stewart Island shag (Leucocarbo carunculatus chalconotus)

  • Publication Type

    Journal Article

  • Publication Year

    1975

  • Author(s)

    J.P.C. Watt

  • Journal Name

    Notornis

  • Volume, Issue

    22, 4

  • Pagination

    265-272

  • Article Type

    Paper

  • DOI

    https://doi.org/10.63172/079592rieflu

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Notes on Whero Island and other nesting and breeding stations of the Stewart Island shag (Leucocarbo carunculatus chalconotus)

Notornis, 22 (4), 265-272

J.P.C. Watt (1975)

Article Type: Paper

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The adoption of Whero Island as a breeding station by the dimorphic Stewart Island shag over the last 20 years is described. A review of other known breeding stations of this subspecies suggests that breeding sites are subject to periods of nontenancy. The relatively few records of the Stewart Island shag indicate a distribution restricted to Foveaux Strait, and the Otago coast at Moeraki and near Dunedin. The total population is unlikely to exceed a few thousand birds.