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| genus = Leucocarbo |
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| authority = [[Robert Falla|Falla]], 1937<ref>Falla (1937), p.226.</ref> |
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| synonyms = *''Phalacrocorax atriceps nivalis'' |
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The '''Heard Island shag''' (''Leucocarbo nivalis''), or '''Heard Island cormorant''', is a marine [[cormorant]] native to the [[Australia]]n territory comprising the [[Heard Island and McDonald Islands|Heard and McDonald Islands]] in the [[Southern Ocean]], about |
The '''Heard Island shag''' ('''''Leucocarbo nivalis'''''), or '''Heard Island cormorant''', is a marine [[cormorant]] native to the [[Australia]]n territory comprising the [[Heard Island and McDonald Islands|Heard and McDonald Islands]] in the [[Southern Ocean]], which is about 4,100 km south-west of [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]], [[Western Australia]]. |
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==Taxonomy== |
==Taxonomy== |
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===Feeding=== |
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The birds forage locally in shallow coastal waters,<ref name="DEWHA website"/> with the diet consisting primarily of [[polychaetes]] and [[fish]].<ref name = Heard>Green, K., and Williams, R. (1997). ''Biology of the Heard Island Shag Phalacrocorax nivalis. 3. Foraging, Diet and Diving Behaviour.'' Emu 97: 76-83</ref> The proportion of fish in the diet is higher when the birds are feeding chicks.<ref>Green et al. (1990), pp.139-141.</ref><ref>Green (1997c), p.76.</ref> |
The birds forage locally in shallow coastal waters,<ref name="DEWHA website"/> with the diet consisting primarily of [[polychaetes]] and [[fish]].<ref name = Heard>Green, K., and Williams, R. (1997). ''Biology of the Heard Island Shag Phalacrocorax nivalis. 3. Foraging, Diet and Diving Behaviour.'' Emu 97: 76-83 {{doi|10.1071/MU97008}}</ref> The proportion of fish in the diet is higher when the birds are feeding chicks.<ref>Green et al. (1990), pp.139-141.</ref><ref>Green (1997c), p.76.</ref> |
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==Status and conservation== |
==Status and conservation== |
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==References== |
==References== |
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*{{Cite web|url=http://www.heardisland.aq/nature/animals/fact_file_heard_island_cormorant.html|title=Heard Island Cormorant - Fact File|publisher=[[Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts|DEWHA]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912085459/http://www.heardisland.aq/nature/animals/fact_file_heard_island_cormorant.html|archive-date=12 September 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=15 February 2009}} |
*{{Cite web|url=http://www.heardisland.aq/nature/animals/fact_file_heard_island_cormorant.html|title=Heard Island Cormorant - Fact File|publisher=[[Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts|DEWHA]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912085459/http://www.heardisland.aq/nature/animals/fact_file_heard_island_cormorant.html|archive-date=12 September 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=15 February 2009}} |
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*{{Cite book|title=Birds|last=Falla|first=R. A.|publisher=[[British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition|The B.A.N.Z.A.R Expedition Committee]]|editor-last=Johnston|editor-first=T. Harvey|editor-link=Thomas Harvey Johnston|series=B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition 1929–1931, Reports—Series B|volume=II|publication-date=20 August 1937|pages=226 |
*{{Cite book|title=Birds|last=Falla|first=R. A.|publisher=[[British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition|The B.A.N.Z.A.R Expedition Committee]]|editor-last=Johnston|editor-first=T. Harvey|editor-link=Thomas Harvey Johnston|series=B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition 1929–1931, Reports—Series B|volume=II|publication-date=20 August 1937|pages=226|author-link=Robert Falla}} |
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*{{Cite book|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/action/birds2000/index.html|title=The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000| |
*{{Cite book|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/action/birds2000/index.html|title=The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000|last1=Garnett|first1=Stephen T.|last2=Crowley|first2=Gabriel M.|publisher=Environment Australia|year=2000|isbn=0-642-54683-5|location=Canberra}} |
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*{{Cite journal|last=Green|first=K.|date=1997|title=Biology of the Heard Island Shag ''Phalacrocorax nivalis''. 1. Breeding Behaviour|journal=[[Emu (journal)|Emu]]|volume=97|issue=1|pages=60–66|doi=10.1071/MU97006}} |
*{{Cite journal|last=Green|first=K.|date=1997|title=Biology of the Heard Island Shag ''Phalacrocorax nivalis''. 1. Breeding Behaviour|journal=[[Emu (journal)|Emu]]|volume=97|issue=1|pages=60–66|doi=10.1071/MU97006}} |
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*{{Cite journal|last=Green|first=K.|date=1997|title=Biology of the Heard Island Shag ''Phalacrocorax nivalis''. 2. Breeding|journal=[[Emu (journal)|Emu]]|volume=97|issue=1|pages=67–75|doi=10.1071/MU97007}} |
*{{Cite journal|last=Green|first=K.|date=1997|title=Biology of the Heard Island Shag ''Phalacrocorax nivalis''. 2. Breeding|journal=[[Emu (journal)|Emu]]|volume=97|issue=1|pages=67–75|doi=10.1071/MU97007}} |
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*{{Cite journal|last1=Green|first1=K.|last2=Williams|first2=R.|date=1997|title=Biology of the Heard Island Shag ''Phalacrocorax nivalis''. 3. Foraging, Diet and Diving Behaviour|journal=[[Emu (journal)|Emu]]|volume=97|issue=1|pages=76–83|doi=10.1071/MU97008}} |
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*{{Cite journal| |
*{{Cite journal|last1=Green|first1=K.|last2=Williams|first2=R.|last3=Woehler|first3=E.J.|last4=Burton|first4=H.R.|last5=Gales|first5=N.J.|last6=Jones|first6=R.T.|date=June 1990|title=Diet of the Heard Island cormorant ''Phalacrocorax atriceps nivalis''|journal=[[Antarctic Science]]|volume=2|issue=2|pages=139–141|doi=10.1017/S0954102090000177|bibcode=1990AntSc...2..139G|s2cid=84260970 }} |
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*{{Cite book|title=[[Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|isbn=0-19-553244-9|editor-last=Marchant|editor-first=S. |
*{{Cite book|title=[[Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds]] Volume 1: Ratites to Ducks|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|isbn=0-19-553244-9|editor-last=Marchant|editor-first=S.|location=Melbourne|editor-last2=Higgins|editor-first2=P.J.}} |
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[[Category:Leucocarbo|Heard Island shag]] |
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[[Category:Fauna of Heard Island and McDonald Islands]] |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Suliformes |
| Family: | Phalacrocoracidae |
| Genus: | Leucocarbo |
| Species: | L. nivalis
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The Heard Island shag (Leucocarbo nivalis), or Heard Island cormorant, is a marine cormorant native to the Australian territory comprising the Heard and McDonald Islands in the Southern Ocean, which is about 4,100 km south-west of Perth, Western Australia.
Taxonomy
[edit]The Heard Island shag is one of the blue-eyed shags, sometimes placed in the genus Leucocarbo, and a subspecies of the imperial shag. Others place it in the genus Phalacrocorax. It is now usually considered to be a full species.
Distribution and habitat
[edit]The Heard Island shag is restricted to the subantarctic Heard and McDonald Islands, and is only known to breed on Heard Island. Apart from breeding and roosting, its habitat is marine.
Description
[edit]The Heard Island shag has largely black upperparts and white underparts. The cheeks and ear-coverts are white; there are white bars on the wings, a black, recurved crest over the forehead, and pink feet.[2] A breeding adult has a pair of orange caruncles above the base of the bill in front of the eyes as well as blue eye-rings.[2] It is about 77 cm in length, with a wingspan of 120 cm and a weight of 3 kg.[2]
Behaviour
[edit]Heard Island shags are gregarious, roosting in groups of from 10-20 birds up to several hundred.[3]
Breeding
[edit]The birds are present year round at Heard Island, where they breed annually in colonies. Courtship takes place from late August to early October. Nests are mounds built largely of the stipes, roots and adhering soil of the tussock grass Poa cookii and average about 22 cm high, with a minimum distance between nests of 50 cm.[4][5] The clutch of two or three eggs is laid mainly between mid-September and November, hatching from November to February. The chicks fledge from January to March.[6]
Feeding
[edit]The birds forage locally in shallow coastal waters,[6] with the diet consisting primarily of polychaetes and fish.[7] The proportion of fish in the diet is higher when the birds are feeding chicks.[8][9]
Status and conservation
[edit]The Heard Island shag population is estimated to comprise about 1000 breeding pairs. It is listed as Vulnerable under Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999,[6] because the population is small, localised and subject to fluctuations in breeding success due to weather conditions and food availability. A potential threat is climate change affecting sea temperatures and thus food supply.[10]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Falla (1937), p.226.
- ^ a b c Marchant & Higgins (1991), p.854.
- ^ Marchant & Higgins (1991), p.856.
- ^ Green (1997a), pp.61-62.
- ^ Green (1997b), p.68.
- ^ a b c DEWHA website
- ^ Green, K., and Williams, R. (1997). Biology of the Heard Island Shag Phalacrocorax nivalis. 3. Foraging, Diet and Diving Behaviour. Emu 97: 76-83 doi:10.1071/MU97008
- ^ Green et al. (1990), pp.139-141.
- ^ Green (1997c), p.76.
- ^ Garnett & Crowley (2000).
References
[edit]- "Heard Island Cormorant - Fact File". DEWHA. Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
- Falla, R. A. (20 August 1937). Johnston, T. Harvey (ed.). Birds. B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition 1929–1931, Reports—Series B. Vol. II. The B.A.N.Z.A.R Expedition Committee. p. 226.
- Garnett, Stephen T.; Crowley, Gabriel M. (2000). The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000. Canberra: Environment Australia. ISBN 0-642-54683-5.
- Green, K. (1997). "Biology of the Heard Island Shag Phalacrocorax nivalis. 1. Breeding Behaviour". Emu. 97 (1): 60–66. doi:10.1071/MU97006.
- Green, K. (1997). "Biology of the Heard Island Shag Phalacrocorax nivalis. 2. Breeding". Emu. 97 (1): 67–75. doi:10.1071/MU97007.
- Green, K.; Williams, R. (1997). "Biology of the Heard Island Shag Phalacrocorax nivalis. 3. Foraging, Diet and Diving Behaviour". Emu. 97 (1): 76–83. doi:10.1071/MU97008.
- Green, K.; Williams, R.; Woehler, E.J.; Burton, H.R.; Gales, N.J.; Jones, R.T. (June 1990). "Diet of the Heard Island cormorant Phalacrocorax atriceps nivalis". Antarctic Science. 2 (2): 139–141. Bibcode:1990AntSc...2..139G. doi:10.1017/S0954102090000177. S2CID 84260970.
- Marchant, S.; Higgins, P.J., eds. (1990). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds Volume 1: Ratites to Ducks. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553244-9.