bird extinction history

Pallas’s Cormorant bird almost twice the size of most cormorants, living on remote rocky coasts, reluctant to fly yet dominating the seas around the Bering Islands. Meet Pallas’s Cormorant, also known as the Spectacled Cormorant (scientific name Urile perspicillatus). This bird is fascinating for many reasons: it was once the largest known cormorant, it had…