cormorant

merimetso Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, especially the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo.
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Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Plotus melanogaster|Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,

Live registred upon our brazen tombs,''

And then grace us in the disgrace of death;

When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,

The endeavour of this present breath may buy

That honour which shall bate his scythes keen edge,''

And make us heirs of all eternity.