spectacled cormorant

English

Noun

spectacled cormorant (plural spectacled cormorants)

1. An extinct species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus, that once lived on Bering Island.
   • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 70:

     Inexperience of man, together with a general slowness of motion when on land, made spectacled cormorants easy prey.