Pallas's cormorant (Phalacrocorax perspicillatus)
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Wikipedia: Pallas's cormorant Source: WIKIPEDIA ExtbPallusCormorantovw.jpg
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Classification: Genus Phalacrocorax (Phalacrocorax); Family Cormorants and shags (Phalacrocoracidae)General:
The spectacled cormorant or Pallas's cormorant (Phalacrocorax perspicillatus[2]) is an extinct marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabited Bering Island and possibly other places in the Komandorski Islands and the nearby coast of Kamchatka in the far northeast of Russia.[1] The modern distribution was shown to be a relic 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.[3]
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