Spectacled Cormorant
Urile perspicillatus(Pallas, PS, 1811)
English (US) Spectacled Cormorant
The Spectacled Cormorant (Urile perspicillatus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and Shags) in the order Suliformes.
Range: islands in Bering Sea; extinct, last reported 1852Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Urile perspicillatus
- Order
- Suliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Extinct
- English (US)
- Spectacled Cormorant
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1811)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Phalacrocorax perspicillatus
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1811)
- Type locality
- Bering Island.
- Original description
- Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico (etc.) 2 p.305
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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