Monday, November 12, 2007

Dear Austin Powers, this bird is a real common shag!

For your amusement, a random piece of information I ran across at work today.

The European Shag or Common Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) is a species of cormorant. It breeds around the rocky coasts of western and southern Europe, southwest Asia and north Africa, mainly wintering in its breeding range except for northernmost birds. In Britain this seabird is usually referred to as simply the Shag.



Pictured: A young European shag (source: Wikipedia)