Spectacled Cormorant
Urile perspicillatus
- Extinct
- Card rarity: Extinct
- Birds
The spectacled cormorant or Pallas's cormorant is an extinct cormorant species 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.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Phalacrocoracidae
- Genus
- Urile