Spectacled Cormorant

	Name	Spectacled Cormorant
	Regnum	Animal ia
	Phylum	Chordata
	Classis	Aves
	Ordo	Pelecaniformes
	Familia	Phalacrocoracidae
	Genus	'' Phalacrocorax ''
	Species	'''''P perspicillatus'''''
	Binomial	''Phalacrocorax perspicillatus''
	Binomial Authority	Pallas , 1811

The Spectacled Cormorant (''Phalacrocorax perspicillatus'') is an Extinct marine Bird of the Cormorant family of Seabird s that inhabited a few islands at the western end of the Aleutian Islands .

The species was first identified by Georg Steller in 1741 on Vitus Bering 's Second Kamchatka Expedition. He described the bird as large, clumsy and almost flightless - though it was probably rather reluctant to fly than physically unable -, and wrote "they weighed 12 – 14 pounds, so that one single bird was sufficient for three starving men."

Apart from the fact that it fed on Fish , almost nothing else is known about this bird. The population declined quickly when further visitors to the area collected the birds for food and Feather s. It is believed the Spectacled Cormorant became extinct in 1850.

This bird is also known as Pallas's Cormorant.

SEE ALSO

List Of Extinct Animals Of The United States

List Of Extinct Animals Of Asia

Extinct Birds

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