Bounty Shag
Leucocarbo ranfurlyi(Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1901)
English (US) Bounty Shag
The Bounty Shag (Leucocarbo ranfurlyi) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and Shags) in the order Suliformes.
Range: Bounty Islands (New Zealand)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Leucocarbo ranfurlyi
- Order
- Suliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Bounty Shag
- Described by
- (Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1901)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Phalacrocorax ranfurlyi
- Described by
- (Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1901)
- Type locality
- Bounty Islands.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 11 p.66
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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