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Spectacled cormorant
The spectacled cormorant or Pallas's cormorant (''Phalacrocorax perspicillatus''〔
''Phalacrocorax'', Ancient Greek word for cormorants (literally "bald raven"). ''perspicillatus'', Latin for "spectacled", in allusion of the birds' large size.〕) is an extinct marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabited Bering Island and possibly other places in the Komandorski Islands and the nearby coast of Kamchatka in the far northeast of Russia.〔 It is the largest species of cormorant known to have existed.
==Description==
The species was first identified by Georg Steller in 1741 on Vitus Bering's disastrous second Kamchatka expedition. He described the bird as large, clumsy and almost flightless – though it was probably reluctant to fly rather than physically unable – and wrote "they weighed 12–14 pounds, so that one single bird was sufficient for three starving men." Though cormorants are normally notoriously bad-tasting, Steller says that this bird tasted delicious, particularly when it was cooked in the way of the native Kamtchadals, who encased the whole bird in clay and buried it and baked it in a heated pit.
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