What we call a shag down under.

[cookey]

Wings spread warming itself up.

[canonloader]

A couple of nice shots of a very interesting bird. Nothing quite like it up here but it looks like a cross between an Anhinga and a Cormorant. :)

[Keith R]

Shags, anhingas and cormorants are all related anyway, Mitch.

Cookey, "shag" might be a colloquial name for this little fella, but it's really a little pied cormorant.

http://www.arthurgrosset.com/ozbirds/littlepiedcormorant.html

[canonloader]

The ones we have here are easy to ID, the cormorants have a hooked beak, the anhingas have a needle beak. :)

[Trace]

Shag is another name for something else, but I cant sat that here.

[Riverlander]

We have them shags here on the River Murray too

Rainy day is good weather for ducks - alright for a shag too........

[Trace]

We have them shags here on the River Murray too

Rainy day is good weather for ducks - alright for a shag too........


Too right Riverlander.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Cool,.
We saw some in africa that were even more "anhinga-like" and they call them "Darters"
The connection between them all is there though.. even the darters all the way in Botswana get the "snake bird" nickname in some native tongues :)