spectacled cormorant

noun

An extinct species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, that once lived on Bering Island.

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nounspectacled cormorant (plural spectacled cormorants)

plural spectacled cormorants

  1. An extinct species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, that once lived on Bering Island.

    Inexperience of man, together with a general slowness of motion when on land, made spectacled cormorants easy prey.

    2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 70
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