Spectacled Cormorant (Urile perspicillatus)
Posted on 31 December, 1840 in Extinct • Tagged with Russia (Komandorski Islands), family-PHALACROCORACIDAE, extinct-1840s
Year Last Seen:
1840
Comments:
This species was known from Russia's Komandorski Islands, but is now Extinct: the last records date from the 1840s and the species is thought to have been lost by the early 1850s. Hunting was the primary cause of its extinction.
Habitat:
It inhabited rocky coasts …
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