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The Little Shag, Little Pied Cormorant or Kawaupaka Microcarbo melanoleucos is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the sub-Antarctic.

It is a small short-billed cormorant usually black above and white below with a yellow bill and small crest, although a mostly black white-throated form predominates in New Zealand. Until recently this species was labeled Phalacrocorax melanoleucus.

Photos 7988 to 7999 were taken at Zoolandia near Wellington. This Little hag was perched on branches close to shore. Photos 2875 to 2885 were taken at Lake Rotorua. The remaining photos of Little Shag and chicks were taken at the White Heron Colony at Okarito, South Island.

Little Shag