Editing Spectacled cormorant (section)

{{Short description|Extinct species of bird}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = EX
| extinct = c. 1850
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |year= 2023 |title=''Urile perspicillatus'' |page= e.T22696750A226827998 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T22696750A226827998.en}}</ref>
| image = ExtbPallusCormorantovw.jpg
| image_caption = Illustration by [[Joseph Wolf]]
| genus = Urile
| species = perspicillatus
| authority = ([[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]], 1811)
| synonyms = * ''Phalacrocorax perspicillatus''<br />{{Taxobox_authority | author = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | date = 1811}}
* ''Graculus perspicillatus''<br />{{Taxobox_authority | author = [[Daniel Giraud Elliot|Elliot]] | date = 1869}}
* ''Pallasicarbo perspicillatus''<br />{{Taxobox_authority | author = [[Elliott Coues|Coues]] | date = 1869}}
* ''Carbo perspicillatus''<br />{{Taxobox_authority | author = [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild|Rothschild]] | date = 1907}}
* ''Compsohalieus perspicillatus''
}}

The '''spectacled cormorant''' or '''Pallas's cormorant''' ('''''Urile perspicillatus''''')<ref>
''Phalacrocorax'', [[Ancient Greek]] word for cormorants (literally "bald raven"). ''perspicillatus'', [[Latin]] for "spectacled", in allusion of the birds' large size.</ref> is an [[Extinction|extinct]] marine [[bird]] of the [[cormorant]] family of [[seabird]]s that inhabited [[Bering Island]] and possibly other places in the [[Commander Islands]] and the nearby coast of [[Kamchatka Peninsula|Kamchatka]] in the far northeast of [[Russia]].<ref name=iucn/> The modern distribution was shown to be a relict of a wider prehistoric distribution in 2018 when fossils of the species from 120,000 years ago were found in [[Japan]]. It is the largest species of [[cormorant]] known to have existed.<ref name="Watanabe">{{cite journal |last1=Watanabe |first1=Junya |last2=Matsuoka |first2=Hiroshige |last3=Hasegawa |first3=Yoshikazu |title=Pleistocene fossils from Japan show that the recently extinct Spectacled Cormorant (''Phalacrocorax perspicillatus'') was a relict |journal=The Auk |date=October 2018 |volume=135 |issue=4 |pages=895–907 |doi=10.1642/AUK-18-54.1 |url=https://academic.oup.com/auk/article/135/4/895/5149007|hdl=2433/233910 |s2cid=91465582 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>