Stewart Island shag

English

Noun

Stewart Island shag (plural Stewart Island shags)

  1. (New Zealand) A species of shag, Leucocarbo chalconotus, endemic to New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island.
    • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 168:
      Other birds are beating in an ungainly way against it, getting nowhere fast. […] “Stewart Island shags, and I don't know the Maori for that…kawau rakiura, perhaps?”
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