Antarctic shag


The Antarctic shag, is a marine cormorant native to the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic peninsula in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Taxonomy and distribution

The Antarctic shag is one of the blue-eyed shags, sometimes placed in the genera Leucocarbo, and a subspecies of the imperial shag. Others place it in the genus Phalacrocorax. It is often treated as a full species.