black-faced cormorant

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black-faced cormorant (plural black-faced cormorants)

  1. (Australia) A bird of southern Australia, Phalacrocorax fuscescens. [from 20th c.]
    • 2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 95:
      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.
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