Not exactly. There are two species in the UK, one of which has a crest or shag. Therefore cormorant and shag. Now that there are many more known species, there is little consistency of naming.
On 22 September 2015 at 02:17, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Hum, I thought that Shag, was a British term for a Cormorant as well... > > On 9/21/2015 9:12 PM, Bipin Gupta wrote: >> >> Hey PJ, that is a beautiful photo of the duckie on sludgy rock. And >> the poor chap doesn't >> appear to be shagging. Just having a lark. >> >> British English means that it is mostly people who shag (or rather >> masturbate) on the rocks >> or anywhere. >> >> So shag = masturbate in rule Britannia. >> >> Regards. >> Bipin. >> camp: San Mateo, CA >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
