| Cormorants and shags have been considered closely related to other totipalmate birds, which when taken together, form Pelecaniformes. |
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| Cormorants and shags are distributed worldwide, with the largest diversity in tropical and temperate zones. |
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| He looked only about six or seven, but was wearing shags for clothing, covered in dirt and skinnier than it was healthy to be. |
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| The only creatures on the beach were some kayakers and some shags, and around the rocks some seals. |
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| Other water birds include grey and mallard ducks, black swans, black shags. |
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| The reporter stands there with this air of authority but it just makes them look like shags on a rock trying to sell yesterdays news. |
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| As well as many types of gull you will see eider ducks, mergansers, black guillemots shags and cormorants. |
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| Walk along the edge opposite the stacks, looking for shags, tysties, eider ducks, grey seals. |
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| Throughout the isles you'll come across throngs of Arctic terns and both species of skuas, as well as black guillemots, gannets, shags, and Storm and Leach's petrels. |
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| Cormorants and shags regurgitate pellets of fish bones and scales daily. |
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| Again the attraction is bird watching, especially pied shags feeding the young birds in their nests, great crested grebe and large numbers of paradise ducks. |
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| The movement of shags in the area rug business has stayed fresh with the addition of new treatments for the go-to product for funkiness. |
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| Phalacrocoracidae is a family of some 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. |
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| Peruvian pelicans in Chile have been recorded feeding on nestlings of imperial shags, juvenile Peruvian diving petrels and grey gulls. |
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| The coasts and surrounding islands are home to colonies of gannets, Manx shearwater, puffins, kittiwakes, shags and razorbills. |
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| In summer these cliffs are the breeding grounds for all sorts of amazing sea birds including razorbills, fulmars, shags and guillemots. |
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| No consistent distinction exists between cormorants and shags. |
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| Second, it makes it easier to deal with the fossil forms, the systematic treatment of which has been no less controversial than that of living cormorants and shags. |
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| It is renowned for its internationally important seabird colonies, including the world's third largest great skua colony, fulmars, gannets, shags, puffins and guillemots. |
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