Meanings
plural black-faced cormorants
- AustraliaA bird of southern Australia, Phalacrocorax fuscescens.First known use 20th c.
Other than the usual clamour of seabirds, ravens and swamp harriers, the only other birds of note in this area are orange-bellied parrots […] and a few black-faced cormorants that venture up from the tannin-stained waters of Bathurst Harbour.
2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 95
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