Pallas's Cormorant - BirdForum Opus

The species Pallas's Cormorant is extinct.

Alternative name: Spectacled Cormorant

Phalacrocorax perspicillatus

Identification

An extinct, very large cormorant.

• Black plumage with purple gloss on wings and green gloss on rest of plumage
• Yellow spectacles
• Bare skin on throat yellow
• White patch on lower flanks

Distribution

Formerly on Bering Island (Commander Islands) and possibly on the adjacent coast of Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia).
After the island got colonised in the early 19th century the species was heavily hunted and got extinct around 1850.

Taxonomy

This was a monotypic species.

Habitat

Rocky coasts and adjacent seas.

Behaviour

Little is known except its diet included fish.
Reluctant to fly.

Reference

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Pallas's Cormorant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pallas%27s_Cormorant

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