black-faced cormorant

English

Noun

black-faced cormorant (plural black-faced cormorants)

1. (Australia) A bird of southern Australia, Phalacrocorax fuscescens. [from 20th c.]
   • 2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 95:

     Other than the usual clamour of seabirds, ravens and swamp harriers, the only other birds of note in this area are orange-bellied parrots […] and a few black-faced cormorants that venture up from the tannin-stained waters of Bathurst Harbour.