Stewart Island shag

noun

A species of shag, Leucocarbo chalconotus, endemic to New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island.

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nounStewart Island shag (plural Stewart Island shags)

plural Stewart Island shags

  1. New ZealandA species of shag, Leucocarbo chalconotus, endemic to New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island.

    Other birds are beating in an ungainly way against it, getting nowhere fast. […] “Stewart Island shags, and I don't know the Maori for that…kawau rakiura, perhaps?”

    1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 168
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