spectacled cormorant

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spectacled cormorant (plural spectacled cormorants)

  1. An extinct species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, that once lived on Bering Island.
    • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 70:
      Inexperience of man, together with a general slowness of motion when on land, made spectacled cormorants easy prey.
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