Spectacled Cormorant
Sign in to saveAlso known as Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, Pallas's cormorant
species of bird
In the Vinony graph
Spectacled Cormorant appears in Vinony's Extinct Species collection — one of 964 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 94 inbound references to Spectacled Cormorant, and connects out to Kamchatka Peninsula, European shag and Red-legged Cormorant.
It is catalogued under topics including Bird extinctions since 1500, Birds described in 1811 and Commander Islands.
Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Urile
- Image
- Phalacrocorax perspicillatus.png
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Urile perspicillatus
- Commons category
- Phalacrocorax perspicillatus
- short name
- U. perspicillatus
- taxon common name
- Pallas's Cormorant
- extinction date
- 1850-00-00
- IUCN conservation status
- extinct species
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Encyclopedic overview
The spectacled cormorant or Pallas's cormorant (Urile perspicillatus) is an extinct marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabited Bering Island and possibly other places in the Commander Islands and the nearby coast of Kamchatka in the far northeast of Russia. The modern distribution was shown to be a relict of a wider prehistoric distribution in 2018 when fossils of the species from 120,000 years ago were found in Japan. It is the largest species of cormorant known to have existed.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spectacled Cormorant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.