Well the ‘me too’ syndrome has clicked in! What we have of course is the frequent disparity between common names and taxonomic standard names.
As a boy, I knew both cormorant and shag as bird names. For us boys mucking around, maybe fishing but generally getting up to no good in and around the creeks and wetland,
, birds and bird behaviour were our interest and fascination but we were quite unscientific.
I think we called cormorants shags if they hung out their wings to dry. So little black cormorant of course but we weren’t particular. I think we probably called darters ‘shag’
too for the same reason. I think we called the LP Comorant a cormorant.. For what it’s worth…..John
From:
Marg Peachey <>
Date: Monday, 8 October 2018 at 11:20 am
To: Elizabeth Compston <>
Cc: chatline <>
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Shags
I grew up west of Orange NSW and we called them shags
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:51 AM Elizabeth Compston <> wrote:
When I was growing up, in Cottesloe W A in the 30 s and 40 s they were always called shags
ElizabethCompston
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