BTO Bird ID - Cormorant and Shag

[@sixtopian]

Cormorant and Shag - the birder version of Netflix and Chill.

[@Seeping-ws5yp]

you're really funny

[@kt47793]

YAY now I know what type of bird Dennis and Doreen are and Julia Fudala 📩THEY ARE NOT UGLY BIRDS!!! 😠😠😠 .....there beautiful 😍🐦🐦

[@markskoda8862]

Very clear. Thank you. There are usually between 5 to 8 birds in a large tree by the side of the River Severn in Worcester. It seems to be a social gathering as apart from occasionally spreading their wings they have never been seen to dive into the river. It is said that they actually feed in gravel pits some three miles away and are not the favourite bird of anglers there.

[@vogel421]

Lovely helpful video, thank you.

[@manamichowdhury3249]

lovely

[@RJPhotographics]

Very informative. Thanks

[@SkeletonKrew21ATX]

Well I just seen they've been doing recent molecular studies and split the Phalacrocorax genera.my bad

[@SkeletonKrew21ATX]

In America all the birds known as shags are referred to as cormorants.all are Phalacrocorax except the flightless cormorant.

[@amfvideos6810]

I think I've seen Shags, but only flying over the freshwater river. It's hard to tell which is which from a distance.

[@SkeletonKrew21ATX]

Shags are cormorants, just some species have those crests.its also a term used in different parts of the world.and few species inhabit the whole northern hemisphere

[@shannonllewellyn7261]

This is a video made by the British Trust for Ornithology, and is using the colloquial common names for the two species. Say 'cormorant' to any UK birder, and they know you are referring to Phalacrocorax carbo; say 'shag', and they know you are referring to Gulosus aristotelis (unless they think that you are propositioning them).

[@willowvc1910]

Saw one today on the river dee at Chester x first time I've seen one

[@zrajbunz]

We have seen both of them.

[@selwyngreenfrith9768]

Cormorants are often also known as 'sea-crows" Bytheway, 1:02 what's up with those inland population of shags. Seem to have spread in from The Wash. Wonder what's going on...

[@BTOvideo]

Hi. The map shown at 1:02 is of winter distribution. You do occasionally get the odd Shag wandering inland, especially in poor winter weather. These are not breeding records.

[@BTOvideo]

A small number of Shags routinely appear on inland freshwater bodies in winter, from large reservoirs such as those in the Midlands to small lakes and even rivers. The map shows the birds that appeared inland during the four winter survey periods of Bird Atlas 2007-11, November-February 2007/08-2010/11. In a single winter, there would typically be fewer records than shown on this map.

[@blondesky9184]

this helped me

[@martinavideos1278]

nice i like it

[@henzcarltupastupas6751]

I was wondering, how can they breath underwater that long period since they have no gills?

[@dimitravasileiadou9771]

I think they can stay underwater for around a minute, and I've seen them frequently raise their heads above water to take a breath and then continue hunting underwater. If they get tangled in a fishing net and can't raise their necks to take a breath then they will eventually drown, just like the rest of shorebirds

[@bytsport2023]

like.....like

[@fpsdovah2572]

Most birds are reptiles aren’t they? Of the avian kind

[@shannonllewellyn7261]

No. They've evolved from reptiles, but their characteristics are suitably different from those common to reptiles to warrant being classed as something else. Just like mammals. We evolved from reptiles, too.

[@minimi9626]

It's a pokemon

[@juliafudala8000]

these birds are ugly

[@trublugeoff]

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