crow duck

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus, so called because its color suggests a crow and its habits a duck.

Quotations

1792

This day we took some eggs of the Crow duck . . . a large black kind of duck with a beak like a crow and lives upon fish.

1938

The cormorants, known also as shags and water turkeys, are large black divers nearly the size of a wild goose, known to the Crees as crow ducks.

1959

Double-crested Cormorant . . . crow duck (In allusion to its colour and somewhat duck-like appearance. . . .).