spotted shag造句

• It is well known for its breeding colony of up to 700 spotted shags.
• Spotted shags feed at sea, often in substantial flocks, taking its prey from mid-water rather than the bottom.
• Spotted shags nest in colonies of 10-700 pairs, these colonies are generally found on the ledges of coastal cliffs ( see photo at right ) or on rocky islets.
• Once a quarantine station for immigrants, it's now a predator-free preserve for threatened bird species, including the Cook Strait giant weta, a red-crowned parakeet called a kakariki and breeding colony of the rare spotted shag.
• Though it was proposed to place the pelagic cormorant in " Stictocarbo " for example, this is quite certainly wrong, as the present species is by no means closely related to the spotted shag ( " P . punctatus " ), the type species of " Stictocarbo ".