Unusual feeding behaviour of Shag. The note on feeding behaviour of Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo (Brit. Birds 74: 348) prompts the following. On 5th February 1977, at Bradwell-on-sea, Essex, I watched an immature Shag P. aristotelis working its way along the very edge of a shallow low-water channel between the seawall and Pewet Island; it was swimming with its head submerged. Eventually, it emer
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