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Leucocarbo atriceps georgianus (South Georgia shag)

Synonyms: Leucocarbo georgianus; Phalacrocorax georgianus

Wikipedia Abstract

The South Georgia shag (Phalacrocorax georgianus), also known as the South Georgia cormorant, is a marine cormorant native to South Georgia and a few other subantarctic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.816 lbs (2.638 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  54.6 grams
Female Weight [3]  5.452 lbs (2.473 kg)
Male Weight [3]  6.356 lbs (2.883 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [3]  16.6 %
Clutch Size [1]  3
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Mating Display [2]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [2]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Scotia Sea Islands tundra United Kingdom Antarctic Tundra    

Prey / Diet

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Marchant, S.; Higgins, PJ (eds.) 1990. The handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds, Vol. 1., ratites to ducks. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0