BTOvideo | BTO Bird ID - Cormorant and Shag @BTOvideo | Uploaded November 2015 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
A black, reptilian-looking bird swims by low to the water - but is it a Cormorant or a Shag? Cormorants are more familiar and wide-spread, although Shags are more numerous. Let us help you to separate these two similar-looking species of water bird.